The article I would like to introduced is "The Budget Battle: Week One:" and how Republicans will spend more but they don't want to spend it on schools is written by Erica Grieder in the Texas Monthly website. It was posted February 11,2013.
There were many cuts across the board in 2011 but the the cuts to education had been more controversial than most, even parents had seen the effect in their children classrooms and they think that the state has failed to "educate" the kids in Texas and because of that the state is currently facing several lawsuits because the Texas constitution requires the legislature to make "suitable provision" for public schools which means that the State Board of Education have to set aside a sufficient amount of funds to provide free textbooks for the use of children attending the public free schools of this state.
What Republicans are saying is that the state has more money but in their view doesn't mean it should spend more money for education. This definitely helps explains why public education is going to be the focal point of the budget battles. I think it's important to read this article because it will affect us one way or another and in the future Texas public schools enrollment is going to grow and that means we would need more teachers and textbooks but who is going to pay for all of that? We just have to see what happens in this Budget battle.
If you want to read more about this article; click below.
http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/budget-battle-week-one
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