Posted on 06/18/2005 9:55:43 AM PDT by derheimwill
Gov. Rick Perry vetoes $35 billion public education budget and calls lawmakers back for special session. Details to come...
Just the headline, so far.
Here's the article.:
Perry vetoes education spending; calls special session
11:59 AM CDT on Saturday, June 18, 2005
Associated Press
AUSTIN - Republican Gov. Rick Perry on Saturday vetoed the state's $35.3 billion public education budget and called lawmakers back to the Capitol to finally find a solution to the school finance dilemma.
"I recognize this is a bold step, and frankly one I wrestled with," Perry said.
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"Ultimately, I determined this action was necessary to ensure we fully fund our schools, provide needed reforms in the classroom, and pass real and substantial property tax relief," he said.
Without state funds, K-12 schools will struggle educate Texas' 4.3 million students when the new school year starts in August.
Such a scenario could give lawmakers who have been uninspired to find a school finance solution the impetus they need to get the job done.
The special session, set to begin Tuesday, will mark the Legislature's fourth attempt to take up school finance in the last three years, including the last two regular sessions. Perry called a special session last spring, but it ended in failure.
It won't necessarily force the Texas legislature to enact a school financing bill...
The dems could take a summer vacation to Oklahoma, or New Mexico, again this summer...LOL
If this affect the schools this year (which it won't), I will just home-school my granddaughter!
That comes out to 8,139 per student...not including local spending.
Public schools do not have a funding problem, they have a spending problem.
Actually, about 40% goes to regional service centers, so-called educational specialists and other non-schooling. The beaurocrats are eating the childrens' lunch - so to speak.
Well that's exactly the point...too much "education" spending goes to feed a useless bureacracy.
Deport the illegals.
Deport the children of first generation illegals and void their U.S. citizenship.
Deport the children of second generation illegals.
Your problem is more than solved and you can even give taxpayers a HUGE tax break.
Just think if the government weren't involved in education how cheap it would be for parents to educate their children. And if the gov't weren't involved at all in health care how cheap it would be to see a Doctor, etc. etc.
In case you missed this little jewel.
Retired teachers cashing in on state program (TEXAS)
Star-Telegram ^ | Mar. 13, 2005 | Yamil Berard
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1362050/posts
Posted on 03/13/2005 3:42:46 PM CST by Dubya
The pay isn't shabby for the elementary school principal in Hurst-Euless-Bedford: $87,686 a year. How much sweeter it is, though, with the thousands of dollars more a month he collects in retirement pay while he's working -- all with a stamp of approval from the school district and the state.
He seized a deal created by state lawmakers: Retire from your Texas public education job, then go back to work in public schools while collecting your pension benefits. Given the opportunity to get two checks instead of one, retired teachers, assistant principals, bus drivers, school secretaries, library clerks and cafeteria workers are grabbing the chance, too.
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about 40% goes to regional service centers, so-called educational specialists and other non-schooling.
Man, I wish those educational specialists were around here.
Government does very little correctly.
But, the sad thig is, if you polled even those who would identify themselves as "conservative," most of them would say we are not spending enough on education.
Cutting spending is simply never an option, because that's the hardest thing to do.
Ir doesn't take a genius, or someone with guts, to appropriate billions for progrmas they know will not work.
"In California which is building schools at a record pace, the costs for a new suburban high school run approximately $55 million, an intermediate school costs about $16 million and elementary schools average $13 million..."
Other states are mentioned. Taxpayers need some compassion.
And this is bad . . . why?
Good. Now let's s-can Robin Hood.
there's a school district here that gets $1500 per student per year more than another district.
yet, whites, mexicans, and blacks can't move fast enough out of the school district that gets the most money.
for progrmas
How about those progrpas too?
Other states are mentioned. Taxpayers need some compassion.
Elaborate a little bit.
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