It looks like Rep. Lloyd Doggett did just that. He introduced an amendment to a House Bill that will require Texas to maintain education spending levels through 2013. Basically, it's a warning that the education stimulus dollars Gov. Perry used to plug holes in the state budget, rather than for their intended purpose to beef up education in Texas, must be used on education - no cutting the education budget at all.
My first thought was that this is a mandate for the 2011 Texas legislative session, but I wonder if this would also affect the 5% mandated budget cuts that are supposed to go into affect Sept. 1, including all sorts of cuts to special needs populations that TEA has proposed.
This bill is projected to pass the Senate today. Read more about it here.
1 comments:
Cutting the budget for special needs kids is easy to do. No one will fight for them. They cant fight for themselves. Their parents are too busy trying their best to take care of their kids. The teachers will roll over and take it. And the greedy taxpayers will say "Why do we have to pay for the special needs kids?"
It's easy to be heartless in Texas. And we are REAL good at it.
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