Month: <span>July 2011</span>

Look for more fees for school kids

The Texas Tribune has a story today warning that the decision of the budgetstrapped Keller ISD to charge for school bus service could be only the beginning of a new round of fees in Texas’ “free” public schools. The story doesn’t offer any additional examples, but more fees (in addition to what kids and parents […]

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A “virtual” siphon of public money

Even in tough economic times, the entrepreneurs whose main interest in education is how to make money from it – and from the taxpayers – are everpresent, and one company, K12 Inc., apparently scored big in Tennessee this spring with a new, forprofit “virtual school” law. The budget cuts suffered by Texas’ public schools were […]

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Tea Party car pools?

Upon returning to work from a couple of weeks off, I am not surprised that school districts still are trying to deal with the $5 billionplus in budget cuts handed them by the Legislature and the governorwhoshouldn’tbe president. And, I notice that the Keller ISD in North Texas has found a way to get the […]

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Cargill: Another bow to the right

In Rick Perry’s view the Earth is flat and tilts to the right, which is why the governor, once again, has dipped into his ideological well to fill the chairman’s spot on the State Board of Education. Barbara Cargill of The Woodlands becomes the latest member of the board’s social conservative faction to receive Perry’s […]

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