Month: <span>October 2011</span>

Consumers to rally against antischool tax breaks

While Gov. Rick Perry’s appointees to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality continue to weigh refineries’ requests for tax breaks that could cost public schools and other local governments millions of dollars in lost revenue, consumer advocates and education supporters plan to rally against the refineries at TCEQ headquarters in Austin next Wednesday (Nov. 2). […]

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LeUnes is most credible education candidate in District 14

Five candidates are running in a Nov. 8 special election for a vacant state representative seat in Brazos County. All are claiming a strong commitment to public education, but four are spending most of their energy promoting (or catering to) an ideology that is endangering the future of our public schools. Only one, Judy LeUnes, […]

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Candidate Perry vs. Gov. Perry on teacher jobs

Last spring, Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, gave school teachers the back of his hand as he presided over more than $5 billion in education budget cuts. Teachers were losing jobs, but budget cuts were Perry’s first priority, even as enrollment in Texas’ public schools was increasing by 80,000 or 85,000 a year. Now, […]

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Choosing corporate welfare over schools

I am not sure what an “onshore delivery center” is, but it sounds like something that would be landlocked. And, since this particular facility is being developed by CGI Group, Inc., in Belton, in Central Texas, I guess it is appropriately named. A bigger question, though, is whether the state of Texas should be handing […]

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