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DhhD

(4,695 posts)
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 12:47 PM Jul 2015

Local News Media Seem To Be Inferring Robin Hood School Funding Is The Issue Instead

Of The $5.4 Billion That The GOP Controlled TX Legislature Pulled From Constitutional Education Funding In Order To Try To Balance A State Budget in the Spring 2011 Session. The Appeal will be settled in September 2015.

http://www.texastribune.org/2014/09/26/judge-issues-school-finance-ruling/


There was no mention, by the media, that the case is an Appeal from then TX AG Greg Abbott, now governor, that the Texas Supreme Court found for the school districts Fall of 2014, that the children of Texas were not receiving fully funded programs for their education.

Who received tax breaks when the public school programs are underfunded? People are angry already about the corruption going on in Texas. I am very unhappy about the way Texas Republicans have treated the children and educators of Texas. Keep in mind that the pay for teachers was dropped to $29,500.00 a year in the 2015 GOP controlled TX Legislature. That way, wealthy Texans could reduce their property taxes by approx. $150.00 a year.

Now, I do not trust Channel 11 to tell me the truth on their local news shows. I was watching evening TV on July 3, 2015.

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Local News Media Seem To Be Inferring Robin Hood School Funding Is The Issue Instead (Original Post) DhhD Jul 2015 OP
We need to get the facts out Gothmog Jul 2015 #1

Gothmog

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1. We need to get the facts out
Sat Jul 4, 2015, 04:43 PM
Jul 2015

The Robin Hood system broke due the Tea party cuts to education funding

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