It is a shame to have legislators tell school boards, "PLEASE: Sue us!" Not to mention the expense to school districts across the state-- the lawyers don't work for free, and an industry has been created of lawyers dealing with the suits and monitoring compliance to the rulings. More of your tax dollars at work-- on NOTHING productive!
Sunday, February 12, 2012
A Call To Action for the Texas Legislature
An interesting editorial in the Chron today calling on the Gov to pay attention to his own back yard and call a special session to deal with school finance. Read it here. Hopefully, more voices will join this call and the legislature will get to work and actually fix the system, as opposed to just bandaging it. It is embarrassing that Texas school districts have to sue the legislature on a regular basis to require it to do its constitutional mandate: ...it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools. (From Texas Constitution, Article 7, Section 1.)
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It's a shame that our legislators have to be sued to do their jobs and our tax dollars are going to waste. You would think that would be reason enough to spur them to action.
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