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As long as they don't take Darwin's theories out of text books it's all good.
At Texas Schools, Making Do on a Shoestring
Several lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Legislature have played down the impact of the $5.4 billion in cuts on schools statewide. In an interview in February with The Dallas Morning News, Gov. Rick Perry said he saw no need for a special legislative session to restore some of the education funding that was eliminated last year and said the schools were receiving an adequate amount of money. “How that money’s spent is the bigger issue,” he told the newspaper.
But many public school advocates, parents and administrators said the reductions that districts had made — and were considering for the next school year — had reached an unprecedented level, even as enrollment and testing requirements have increased. Hundreds of districts have sued the state in four lawsuits, saying that the school finance system fails to adequately and equitably pay for public education in Texas.
From the previous school year to the current one, districts across Texas eliminated 25,286 positions through retirements, resignations and layoffs, including 10,717 teaching jobs, according to state data analyzed by Children at Risk, a nonprofit advocacy group in Houston. Texas public schools spend $8,908 per student, a decrease of $538 from the previous year and below the national average of $11,463, according to the National Education Association. California spent $9,710 and New York $15,592.
“I’ve been in education 42 years, and I’ve been a superintendent about 25 of those 42 years, and this is the worst that I’ve ever had to cut,” said John Folks, the superintendent of one of the districts suing the state, Northside in San Antonio, where officials eliminated 973 positions and made classes larger in a $61.4 million budget reduction. “We cut about 40 special education teachers. We cut about 28 athletic coaches. We froze salaries. School districts can’t take much more than this.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/09/us...q=texas&st=cse
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VRWC and Repugs continue to the country in every direction.
Last edited by boutons_deux; 04-09-2012 at 04:54 PM.
As long as they don't take Darwin's theories out of text books it's all good.
lol NYT.
Stupid article that struggles, vapidly to make a point but fails miserably. I notice there was no mention of the byzantine construct that is school finance in Texas a direct result of the seemingly bi-annual funding lawsuits kicked into the courts...(7 major lawsuits that have re-arranged school funding methodology since 1970 alone). No mention of Republican senator Steve Ogden's plan to put a state-wide property/education tax on the ballot. No...all that researchy stuff would be too difficult.
It's idiotic, partisan red team-blue team, VRWC uber alles lunacy like this that makes it almost ing impossible to get anything done in politics. We can't have actual facts get in the way of our confirmation bias parade!
Thanks for doing your small, idiotic part, boutons.
And by "Thanks" I mean gfy.
When the Repugs suckered TXans into cutting property taxes a few years ago, they didn't say how, eg, schools would be affected. Now Texans are finding how dishonest the Repugs are in hiding their agenda to destroy public education (get kids into charter schools where they can be indoctrinated with VRWC lies and bull ) and destroy public teacher unions as a source of Dem funding.
Your premise is completely unsupported.
The property tax cut was unquestionably a stupid move..one of many by Goodhair and the pliable Legislators. But an agenda to destroy public education...that's suicide in Texas besides and again, it's utter bull as a premise. Perry'll find out if he's stupid enough to run again. lol agenda.
What Republican would knock a sitting governor out? Perry is governor until he decides he isn't.
"utter bull as a premise"
It's a key tactic in ALEC's strategy. Kill public eductaion, blame the teachers, bust the teacher union, privatize education, transfer taxpayer funds to for-profit charter schools where unions are forbidden, and indoctrinate the kids with conservative, anti-science, anti-warming, "Christian" propaganda.
Again....a totally unsupported premise.
1969
'Everyday we rebuild the bridge and every night the gooks knock it down just so politicians can say the roads are open"
2012
"Everyday teachers work longer hours, are more accountable to politicians, administrators, and parents with less and less resources and support just so the politicians can say it can be done"...
I'll bet Texas is another state where teachers get paid more than police officers.
That just isn't right.
Don't Texas teachers get bonuses and other perks if kids do well on the state tests?
Can someone tell me how it helps a kid in life to know how to take a state test and pass it? What type of life skills does a kid learn with state test taking? Will the experiences of taking state tests help a kid get a job or help a kid open a checking account or fill out a resume?
And yes, cops should definitely make more than teachers.
they have a pretty important job, but i doubt they make more than police officers.
Edit: It looks like max teacher salary is more than max police salary, but the median is higher for police officers.
Last edited by leemajors; 04-10-2012 at 08:19 AM.
They don't. Wild Cobra is a lazy moron.
"...Regular rate of pay is increased by 3 percent for every five years of service. The base pay indicated is a minimum. Most officers earn significantly more when incentive pays are applied for shift, education and other opportunities.
As an example, the most recent graduating cadet class earned an average of more than $55,000 after completing their 14-week FTO training period."
http://www.sapdcareers.com/pay-and-benefits/salary/
Last edited by Blake; 04-10-2012 at 09:40 AM.
http://www.nisd.net/hr/compensation/
If this isn't the top paying district in town, I know it's at least in the top 3.
Starting pay for teachers here is nice at roughly $47k, but if you notice, a teacher with 20 years experience barely cracks $55k.
To add, I'm fairly certain that SAPD officers pay next to nothing for their insurance and pay nothing at all for their uniforms.
Following ALEC's initiatives and copy-pasting ALECs "laws and regs":
Republican Legislators Push Charter Schools to Privatize Public Education
http://blog.locustfork.net/2012/03/r...lic-education/
ludicrous. I'll see your blog and raise you one.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthe...b_1402676.html
http://www.nyccharterschools.org/ Funded by those ALEC bas s, Bill and Melinda Gates.
I know in your simple white and black world that you simply will not/cannot fathom that some models work in some places whereas they might not work in others. It's much easier to lump something you don't understand up and wrap an ALEC or VRWC bow on it.
It's stupid, but I understand.
Instead of parrotting a blog, tell me in your own words, if such exists, why charter schools are a bad idea.
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