Texas drops close to bottom among states in student spending

[BradLohaus]

It’s hard to envision a future for Texas without taking a serious look at the Hispanic population. Demographer Steven Murdock recently released Changing Texas: Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge. Murdock has been a de facto prognosticator when it comes to accurately foretelling the future of Texas. Numbers don’t lie.

His book offers a stern warning for the state. “In the absence of change, the Texas labor force as a whole will be less well-educated, work in lower-status occupations, and have lower incomes in 2050 than 2010.”

So the state will be more like Latin America. Shocking. Although on the last results that I've seen of the international PISA test that they give students every year Hispanic Americans outscored every other Latin American country that took the test. That's a positive right?

I've always figured that the first things that a majority Hispanic blue TX will do is 1.) state income tax and 2.) give the state as much power and control over the funding of public schools as possible. This will infuriate most whites of course, but at that point it won't matter. The courts will uphold it all under some kind of disparate impact on race theory. If there's one iron law of a decreasing percentage of whites in a city/region/whatever, it's this: they increasingly send their kids to private school. Houston ISD is 8% white; Dallas is 5%. That explains how the Preston Hollow case above was even possible; if anybody has ever lived in Dallas then you know that Preston Hollow is wealthy and white. Almost all of their kids are in private schools. Expect to see this same type of thing happen more and more in smaller cities, and even clusters of smaller towns.

This is great news for the future Left majority in TX. When the changes that are implemented in the public schools fail to substantially change the differences in test scores among the races, you will have an old standby for an excuse: white flight strikes again! This time in the form of children instead of whole families moving. Whites are like the 3 bears' soup in Goldilocks. Too many is bad, too few is bad, but one of these days we will figure out what's just right. Hopefully soon though, as we appear to be running out of them.

Then there will be calls to diversify all of the schools. It will interesting to see the Left embrace some kind of voucher system. And then when that doesn't work, we're right back where we are today. Somewhere around that time is when I expect the end of affirmative action bonus points in college admissions and the beginning of a racial quota system. If you think that's too far I'll give you 2 reasons why it's not: 1.) Under the new disparate impact theory they already basically exist in some areas, like Fire and Police Dept. exams, and it's well known to exist in many major corps. 2.) Do you think that the majority of blacks and Hispanics would vote for that for their children? I bet they would, and I bet they will, and I bet the politicians will. Again, the courts at that point will uphold it, just as the SCOTUS eventually did with AA in the first place. Also, this will hurt Asians more than anybody, so in exchange for their continued votes the Left will lump them in with whites.

The Dire Situation in Education has been going on nonstop since school integration. More money, more new plans, on and on indefinitely. California wants to give all of the students iPads. I'm sure that'll help a lot. But the ultimate solution is always the same: just change the scoring rules. All that's really wanted is to get more blacks and Hispanics into good universities, and then get more into higher status jobs. Ask yourself what's the easiest way of doing this as fast as possible when whites are no longer the majority, and then plan on that happening.

[pgardn]

The Dire Situation in Education has been going on nonstop since school integration.



So you are implying that segregating schools would halt the dire situation?

Or the dire situation Public schools are in was caused by integration, or both?

I will repeat this yet again based on working closely with public school teachers as a volunteer. This State, as well as other States, have no clue as to exactly what the role of public schools are?

1. Warehouse teenage boys until they become old enough to be treated as adults.
2. Feed and provide a safe place for kids.
3. Take care of children's medical needs.
4. Act as a surrogate family.
so many more...

And part of the problem IS CLEARLY FUNDING.
There are not enough teachers/staff in the State to adequately take care of State Mandates.
The above is a HUGE factor. The State makes rules that the public schools CANNOT carry out adequately with the funds they are given. I know this is true for NISD in San Antonio, the most diverse, and one of the fastest growing school districts in the Nation given its huge enrollment.

[boutons_deux]

In fiscally conservative TX? naw, say it ain't so, Repugs!

Local Debt Climbs as Texas Cities Deal With Growth

Eight years ago, officials with the city of Jarrell decided their small community north of Austin needed a new wastewater system. They expected an influx of new residents and businesses to support some debt to pay for the project.

“That was about the time the market crashed,” City Manager Mel Yantis said. “Building basically rolled to a stop.”

As of 2013, Jarrell’s $10.3 million debt works out to $9,928 for each of the community’s 1,035 residents. It is one of the highest per-capita debt loads among Texas cities, which mostly have debt loads of less than $1,000 per resident.

In recent years, nearly all of Jarrell’s property taxes — 39 out of 44 cents per $100 of assessed value — have gone to paying off debt, Yantis said. That’s meant holding off on other projects, like expanding the police force.

Jarrell’s story is an extreme example of the way hundreds of Texas communities are relying more on borrowing to handle basic public services. Over the last decade, local government debt has grown around the country, but Texas, with an economic performance in recent years that has outpaced the rest of the country, is a special case.

Of the 10 largest states, Texas has the second-highest local debt per capita as cities and school districts have gone on a borrowing spree to maintain or expand amenities while not raising taxes.

(Use our Local Debt Explorer to find out how much tax-supported debt is held in Texas cities, counties and school districts.)

In many cases, local communities are counting on expected population growth and the success of new businesses to bring in more tax revenue, allowing them to paying off the debt years ahead of schedule. Yet if that growth doesn’t pan out, that strategy can shift the burden to taxpayers, potentially decades into the future.
“This is a pervasive problem at every single level,” Comptroller Susan Combs said. “Nobody gets off scot-free on this.”

Many local officials argue that issuing debt is the only option to maintaining essential services as Texas gains more than 1,000 people a day.

“Texas does a really good job of bringing people to Texas but not a very good job of supporting the local infrastructure, like schools and libraries and parks and all those things that make people want to stay in Texas once they get here,”

https://www.texastribune.org/2014/08...-across-texas/

Remember LIBOR criminal rate fixing, that increased, among everything else, municipal bond rates? Any LIBOR criminals go to jail? Any LIBOR-screwed municipal bonds get renegotiated at lower interest rates? no.

Guess who's holding those municipal bonds (getting paid interest)? yep, the wealthy 1% and the finance sector. aka, the USA is victim of rentier capitalism.

Just another REDISTRIBUTION of wealth upwards.

The Repug strategy of NEVER raising taxes, of always pushing to cut taxes, suckers their base into thinking that's "sound" government, but in fact it forces the suckers' local govts to go into dramatic debt to the Repugs' paymasters. Keeping taxes low stretches out the bond debt, INCREASING the interest burden.

[boutons_deux]

The SEMINOLE ISD, West TX rednecks, won't let a NAVAJO 5-year-old into school with long hair.

http://www.alternet.org/native-ameri...t-day-cut-hair

[boutons_deux]

Texas school districts militarize campus cops with free surplus weapons, armored vehicles

Taking advantage of U.S. Defense Department offers of free or low-cost military hardware, Texas school districts have been helping themselves to high-powered weaponry, bullet-proof vests, and armored vehicles to militarize their campus police officers.

A KHOU investigation shows that ten school districts in Texas have been acquiring the military surplus under a government program that allows them to load up at little to no cost.

According to the investigation, the districts have acquired 64 M-16 rifles, 18 M-14 rifles, 25 automatic pistols, and magazines capable of holding 4,500 rounds of ammunition. Additionally, the schools stocked up on armored plating, tactical vests, as well as 15 surplus military vehicles.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/09/0...e+Raw+Story%29

low-wage, redneck bubbas gotta have their war toys

[Cry Havoc]

Conservative values getting short term profit gains by selling out to big companies while burning the future in a dumpster? SHOCKING.

[ChumpDumper]

Thank God we gave Apple $30 million to keep them from going someplace they were never going in the first place.

[Ignignokt]

Scoff, we should totally throw our money at education so that people will excel in women studies and critical theory in highschool only to be unemployed with a masters degree in degeneracy