Amid Slowing College Enrollment, Fears of Missing Goals
State Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, does not care to hear about the state’s education goals not being met.
“It makes me very sad and frustrated,” Branch said at a recent hearing of the House Higher Education Committee, which he heads. “I get heartburn, and I tend to get cranky.”
At that hearing, Raymund Paredes, the state’s higher education commissioner, outlined Texas’ latest enrollment numbers. According to preliminary data gathered by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the total number of students attending college this fall increased by just 12,000, to about 1.563 million, over the previous ...
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hans5162@ix.netcom.com hans
No mention that the legislature cut funding for the Texas Grants program. I'm sure that had no impact. It's because our economy is so good that students are deciding to work instead of attend college. These guys are idiots.
Proud Texan
Let's see. Tuition costs have increased dramatically in the past 5-10 years and now we're surprised that fewer kids are headed to college. Cause....meet effect.
Rudy Gonzales
TEA-Republican, state Rep. Dan Branch of Dallas truly does have the support and backing of students in his district and student across Texas. College enrollments are dropping due to the high cost of an education which cannot promise good paying jobs. Texas cannot compete with the world with poor standards and buildings implemented by the TEA-Republican's in Austin. This points to the fallacies of Rick Perry's comments in the gubernatorial race. Texas has been consistently losing credibility in schooling with the actions of the TEA-Republican controlled legislature and Governorship. The steady down fall is disturbing, and must be corrected through ousting the current career politician's in Austin including Perry, Abbott and Dewhurst. The Texas legislature has effectively killed primary and secondary schooling with their flagrant abuses of the federal monies taken out of schools as outlined in the Houston Chronicle. There is yet another cowing down to the fringe TEA party extremes who want to do away with all the education and social programs available to Texas children.
tr wilson
"Representative Branch said he hoped the new numbers would help his effort to change Texas’ higher education financing system to take student outcomes, like graduation rates, into account. "
That's just stupid. A university degree should be survival of the fittest. Not everyone needs to go to college, everyone should not go to college. It's not part of your rights.