The Brief: Top Texas News For Oct. 12, 2012
The Big Conversation:
In El Paso, Gov. Rick Perry continued what has become a pre-session push for a top item on his policy agenda: higher education reform.
Yesterday that included calls for a four-year tuition freeze for incoming freshmen at the state’s universities and the expansion of $10,000 degree plans.
"Higher education is one of the priorities and laying out the $10,000 degree plan and expanding it so that higher education is a priority, affordable, and accessible," Perry told the El Paso Times, "And freezing tuition for incoming freshman so that they will know what it will ...
Comments (4)
Adele Roberson
http://www.texaswatchdog.org/2012/09/texans-carry-state-local-debt-load-of-9212-per-person-for-government-spending/1348758892.column
Texas taxpayers were on the hook for $233.2 billion in debt in 2011, the cumulative result of spending by local and state government officials.
What do you think they are doing with the money?
Rick Perry gets on the pulpit every day of his life and hollers about the excessive spending
by the Democrats in Washington. LOL
Another 99%
Don't see Perry adding into his formulas, the fact that he has been refusing $billions of our tax moneys, that Texans have paid. Since he is dumbing down education, wonder if his dumbed down college education, to match his dumbed down ideas. Perry and his rich friends are surely pocketing a lot of Texans tax dollars for eduction, infrastructure,
Adele Roberson
http://alecexposed.org/wiki/Privatizing_Public_Education,_Higher_Ed_Policy,_and_TeachersEducation
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Diane Ravitch: What You Need To Know About ALEC
Colorlines Bobby Jindal, Using ALEC Playbook, Radically Reshapes Public Education
PRWatch Wisconsin Education Reform Only ALEC Could Love
hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
Folks need to think about what Perry and his fellow Republicans have done to K-12 education in Texas before signing on to his agenda for our flagship universities. He's done enormous damage already. Perry will not stop until he has ground every educational institution in the state into the dirt. Consider his debate performances and the laughing stock he's made of Texas before you take up his next big thing, which is to undermine and destroy the quality of all public education in the state.