Bad Timing for Texas Teachers

I just sat in on the end of today's House Appropriations Committee
hearing, where Chair Jim Pitts called everyone in Governor Perry's
budget office in an attempt to get someone on the record that he would
use the Rainy Day Fund.

No one answered their phone.

Pitts said the House budget bill - HB1 -would go to print tomorrow. It
will be voted out of committee at the end of next week, then go back
to print. It will go to the full House at the end of March for debate.

Note the bad timing for Texas teachers, many of whom will get pink
slips next week when they return from spring break.

Texas teachers are rallying. The situation is dire. And, the
Governor's staff won't answer their phones.

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