Month: <span>September 2011</span>

Austin ISD looking at school closures again

Anyone who may have thought we were nearing the end of school district cutbacks, think again. The Austin ISD, for one, already is moving forward with plans to deal with more budget reductions next year, and those plans include the possible closure of neighborhood schools. An AISD task force recommended closing nine schools last spring, […]

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Seeking chinks in Perry’s rightwing armor

Rarely, very rarely, has Rick Perry done something right as governor, and predictably a couple of those rare occasions got him in trouble last night from the tea partiers whose support he now spends most of his time courting. The biggest bashings that Perry took from the right wing during the Republican candidates’ debate in […]

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Obama’s job plans for Texas

President Obama’s jobs proposal would pay for as many as 39,500 educator and first responder jobs in Texas and provide additional funding for school renovation and community college modernization, which would create thousands of additional jobs, according to an analysis distributed to Congress. The potential numbers clearly dispute the political blahblah issued by presidential wannabe […]

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A “thoughtful” education slasher?

As anticipated, the needs of public schools and teachers were a very low priority for Gov. Rick Perry and other Republican presidential candidates during last night’s debate. One of the few times that any participant discussed education was when Perry was forced to defend the ax that he and the legislative majority took to Texas’ […]

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