If you drive through any small town in Texas, the one new building you will see is the school. The remainder of the town can be falling down, but it's got a new school.
Here in Carrollton, I'm surrounded by new multi-million dollar schools and they are filled with mostly brown skinned kids.
Texas is school poor. We have too many schools and too many school teachers. They don't need fixing. They need to be done away with.
That is one of the largest tax holes that property owners have to contribute to, imo. They seemed to perpetuate themselves regardless of need.