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Great thread.
Recapture is a shiny object, underfunding is the real culprit.
https://x.com/ChandraKus/status/1711...169063893?s=20
Virtue signalling Republicans piling on Defend Texas Liberty.
Great thread.
Recapture is a shiny object, underfunding is the real culprit.
https://x.com/ChandraKus/status/1711...169063893?s=20
.When school budgets get tight, property-wealthy districts are often quick to blame the primary equity tool of the
school finance system: recapture. However, recapture, also known as “Robin Hood,” is not the villain in this story.
Kids of all backgrounds, from Texarkana to Austin to Brownsville, deserve a high-quality education regardless of
the property value within their community. Instead of providing all schools with adequate levels of funding, the
Legislature has used recapture to justify bringing the top down rather than the bottom up. By deeming some
districts as “property-wealthy” while not providing enough funding to anyone, legislative leadership has sowed
division among districts. In order to increase school funding so that all districts are able to support high-quality
education for all students, Texans must reject these divisions and demand a finance system that meets the
true costs of providing a solid public education
Disabled students need not apply.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10...ecial-session/SB 1 also includes a provision that would require private schools to tell parents that they are not subject to federal and state laws regarding services to children with disabilities. An amendment that would have required private schools to give children with disabilities the same level of services as public schools failed.
Vouchers: $8000 per student with zero standards, accountability or compliance with federal law.
Patrick donating DTL's $3m bribe to Israel underscores the palpability of the TX GOP's ties to Neo-Nazis, Patrick indignantly said he'd keep the money before the Texas Tribune's unmasking.
Matt Rinaldi and Chris Russo will probably be thrown overboard, but the well has already been poisoned, policies put forward by Strong Texas Borders and DTL are likely to become law in this special session.
Raw power is all that matters to radical Republicans.If rules have to be broken, so be it.
Deputizes peace officers to deport people.
What could go wrong?
https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup...s=883&Bill=HB4
Classical liberalism is over. The rules-based order is over. There is only friend and enemy now. For friends, everything. For enemies, the law.
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The difficulty the Texas GOP is having kicking neo-Nazis and antisemites to the curb underscores that.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/10...-nick-fuentes/
All because Trump made President and you could not/would not brook it.
Just send 'em back over to Ukraine, that's the Nazi HQ moved over from Germany 80 years back. We weren't told that though then. 80 years later now we're told.
American Democracy.
Oh but the real problem is Dade Phelan "politicizing antisemitism."
You ain't turnin' Texas you silly son-of-a- , you. Now stop it, Winester. It's Friday, damn ya.
Well, you know the Jews, Winester, they got the short end of the dirty stick in the '30's, '40's, '70's/Idi dada/ and now the '20's as the Ham busted that kosher hole wide open. They're feelin' put upon, so, we have excuse 'em once and again.
as recently as last summer, it was more or less cons utionally settled that the federal government sets immigration law
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinion...22-58_i425.pdf
now comes Senate Bill 4, which lets any peace officer whasover transport a suspected alien to any legal point of entry, and makes refusing the removal a crime.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88...pdf#navpanes=0
even the most powerful people in Texas government suck at governing.
Passes Senate, moves to House.
The choice is illusory for Texans who can't afford private school even with the stipend and nonexistent for Texas counties without private schools, which is most of them.
Gotta say, it's striking how little politics posters on a Texas board care about Texas politics.
It's way closer to us, and our votes count for more.
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