$15 billion surplus in TX - I found the 'golden ticket' for funding special education

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- simply put.accountability, transparency, priorities, and the only

reason that I find that the districts are complaining about budget shortcuts

is to cover their butts for making the decisions to cut in particular areas

such as sped. They have determined their priorities (football, band,

cheerleading competitions, facilities, GT programs), have not taken

advantage of grants to support programs and services for our children,

returned federal funding so they can say " look how great we are doing, we

don't need the money " , etc.

Teacher's raises were primarily because they are so far behind on

compensating the teachers that they have an extreme shortage and the teacher

turnover rate in Texas far exceeds the national percentages.

So when all of these issues are addressed and we put the legislators feet to

the fire and just quit allowing them to continue to remain in office to

continue the same ole' same ole' - we are stuck with the state of education

as we currently have it now.

Highways over kids futures. Not something that I'm willing to agree to and

only by letting those in power know that will we even hope to make a

difference. Letting the districts and the state tell us what they are going

to do and lying about how great they have been doing is tantamount to

deliberate indifference.

Amy

Fighting the fight for all our children's rights...

RE: [sPAM] $15 billion surplus in TX - I

found the 'golden ticket' for funding special education

Well, it may seem that way, but just remember they ended last session with

something like a $4B surplus and STILL did NOTHING for education-and that's

with a LOT of people pushing for teacher raises.

I'm wondering how much of that budget surplus is because of all the cuts

that districts are complaining about that are starting to go in this year.

S.