[Iwo Jima]

From the article: The judges gave lawmakers until June 1 to restore that discretion and threatened to cut off state funding for schools if the system is not fixed.

I am probably one of the few that has actually read the Texas Supreme Court's ruling. This is an incorrect statement.

What the Supreme Court has done is upheld that trial court's ruling that the school property tax is unconstitutional and therefore the collection of that unconstitutional tax must be enjoined. The trial court had set the effective date of the injunction as October 1, 2005, but the Supreme Court moved that date to June 1, 2006.

If, as I hope, the legislature does nothing, then "all" that happens is we don't have to pay school property taxes. If anyone is interested (not me) in funding government schools any other way, they are not prohibited from doing so by this ruling.

[mnehring]

Bingo.. but to garner votes, many (on the Right and Left) have made this issue into a 'crisis', selling it that their schools won't be funded after June 1st..