AISD is gearing up for a bond proposal just short of a billion dollars, estimated to cost taxpayers an additional $70 a year.
Public Education
Taxpayers Looking To Perry, Dewhurst For Reforms
Will Perry and Dewhurst take action to reform spending this session?
It’s All About More Money
A big push for expanded gambling is coming, but it just means more money flowing from your wallet to state government.
Zedler Pushing Again for Transparency
Zedler has, once again, introduced a bill requiring school districts to make their check registers, credit card transactions, and fund balances available for public view.
Billions More for Bigger Government
Speaker Straus is calling for additional spending on public education.
Even More Money For Education Needed?
So far, more money has paid for more administrators and fancy buildings, not better education.
Indebted by the Status Quo
School districts’ debt payments now amount to 9.8 percent of their total expenditures, up from 7 percent in 2001.
A Little Debt Context
Yesterday, Comptroller Susan Combs released another earth-shattering report, this one focused on education debt. The statistics within are just as incredible as you might imagine. Public school districts in Texas are responsible for 33% of Texas' local debt, the...
Who Needs Teachers?
A new report from the Friedman Foundation looks at the growth rates of personnel in our nation’s public schools.
Innovation, Not Debt, Key to Better Schools
Let’s try spending more money in the classroom rather than simply on a classroom.