Month: <span>March 2010</span>

At the back of the line

Almost every day, it seems, there is another headline or two about how more school districts – large and small are trying to grapple with deepening budgetary problems. A recent sampling – but by no means an allinconclusive list – includes Austin ISD, Fort Worth, Arlington, El Paso, North East in San Antonio, Fort Bend, […]

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Who is “tearing down” Texas?

All is sunny and bright in Rick Perry Land. Just ask him. But the real Texas has some real problems, including a serious dropout rate – one of the worst in the country – that continues to plague our public schools, despite the best efforts of educators to turn it around. Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill […]

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We’re teachers, not black helicopters

It already has been wellestablished that political advertising is limited only by imagination, not truth. And provoucher candidate Van Taylor’s imagination is working overtime in his Republican runoff campaign against Mabrie Jackson for an open legislative seat in Plano. This is the District 66 seat being vacated by veteran state Rep. Brian McCall. Taylor has […]

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Rearranging the same ol’ chairs

There is one thing you can almost always count on from most state legislators. They know how to throw out a good cliché, as Senate Education Chairwoman Florence Shapiro did yesterday during the umpteenth round of legislative handwringing over how to pay for the public schools. “Rather than rearranging the chairs on the Titanic, which […]

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