The Texas House has just posted the Draft Budget for the next biennium. The proposed cuts to Public Education are 23% of the current budgeted amount. I am looking over the numbers, but I am posting the Budget for you to download and review. Post your comments below.
(The Education budget is found in Article III which you can download here.)
(Click the image below to enlarge the summary, and click each of the links below to download the referenced section of the Budget. These are very large files, so they may take several minutes to download.)
Summary
Article I - III
Article IV - X
My son is the the Spring Branch FFA program, a program that reaches all of Spring Branch students through their Santa's Farm and livestock show vists by the elementary schools. These types of programs are vunerable to catastrophic budget cuts. Former Lt. Governor Bill Hobby is proposing another way besides radical budget cuts including tapping the rainy day fund (if this is not a rainy day I dont kown what is)and raising taxes on alcohol and tobacco and eliminating tax exemptions. We need to support his efforts and put education first. It's good for the kids, it's good for business.
Posted by: Grady Randle | Tuesday, February 01, 2011 at 05:27 PM
I would be willing to pay higher property taxes to maintain the programs we have in SBISD. The legislature needs to remove the restrictions they placed on the ability of local school districts to raise taxes. I see no difference between the previous situation where the majority of school districts were at their cap and the Supreme Court found that the situation resulted in a de facto state property tax in violation of the state constitution.
Posted by: Hans Graff | Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 02:44 PM