Budget Negotiators Agree on Education Funding
House and Senate negotiators agreed on spending on education, state salaries and benefits this morning and hope to have the final vote on the 2012-13 budget sometime this weekend.
The budget conference committee, made up of five House members and five Senate members, met to resolve their differences on the two remaining sections of the budget. They reconciled other differences between the House and Senate versions a week ago. After it's all printed, they are scheduled to vote on a final report on Thursday that can be sent to both chambers. All it takes is a simple majority vote ...
Comments (2)
alice london
So this news story doesn't really give much detail or analysis on what the impact will be on our local schools. I appreciate that the writer linked the actual conference reports but I read newspapers so I can get the summary of the news. This reporter seems to be saying do your own investigation if you want to know. Would it be too much to ask to have some analysis of how the proposed cuts will affect communities in Texas? Can we have some understanding of what this does to our costly system of testing students? Class size? Teacher salaries? Education programs intended to break the cycle of poverty? Its hard to make this democracy thing work if we can't get any real meaningful insight into what these procedural budget meetings mean.....
Martha
I agree with Alice. I worked - at a school - all day, and came to the Tribune to find out what happened with school finance today. So, what happened? An agreement that means what to our students and teachers?