Month: <span>November 2011</span>

Shoving the wagon over school children

The Texas Legislature misses a lot of opportunities – usually intentionally – and it looks like it may be getting ready to miss another one. A Texas Supreme Court ruling earlier this week gives the Legislature a prime opportunity to begin fashioning a revenue system to more adequately meet the state’s 21st century needs, including […]

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Thanksgiving is for teachers, too

It has been a rough year to be a public school teacher, the roughest in recent memory. Gov. Rick Perry joined governors in Wisconsin, Ohio and other states in declaring war on the profession, costing thousands of teachers their jobs, increasing class sizes for others and undermining the strength of the public school system, the […]

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Pizza is still a “vegetable.” No kidding

As you may have heard by now, pizza’s starring role as a “vegetable” on school lunch menus has been reaffirmed by the United States Congress, an institution that may not know beans about nutrition but certainly knows a lot about the care and feeding of the frozen food industry. In a move undermining efforts to […]

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Schools and teachers can still use the money

I don’t know if state Comptroller Susan Combs was fascinated with fast cars or fascinated with fasttalking rich guys seeking a big taxpayer handout to get richer. But not too long ago, she seemed more than eager to commit $25 million a year for the next 10 years in tax funds to subsidize a Formula […]

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