At last Friday's Hot Seat conversation at the University of Texas at Arlington, state Sen. Kelly Hancock, R-Fort Worth, and state Rep. Diane Patrick, R-Arlington, talked about public education, health care, the state budget and other issues in play in the 83rd session.
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Sarah Surely
I didn't hear the Senator answer a single question without side-stepping to a programmed answer. But Perry did the same thing and got elected. Here's the answer to the "did the cuts hurt Birdville ISD" question. Birdville teachers have had frozen salaries for 3 years. Their insurance and every other thing they buy has gone up. Their salaries have not. They can't complain very loudly, however. The Senator's brother sits on the school board.
Sarah Surely
He makes it sound like GPISD was happy for the cuts. They were not.
Mike Foxtrot
Hmm.The people I know at GPISD said this is exactly the message they wanted to send. That education is a business and they can compete. Playing the victim is not a good a strategy, but creating demand is....
gypsy314 ne
Sugar coat how you choose to but Texans parents know best for there children and should be able to spend there money for the child at the school of there choice. just because some poor or idiot parent choose to attend public schools and support unionize teachers to get a pass on doing the job they hire on to do in know reason to say to parents public money needs to stay in public schools this will not fly. Private schools have higher standards then public schools check it out for your self. The teachers take pride in educating children and it shows from private schools.