Branch Calls for More Outcomes-Based Higher Ed Funding
On Monday afternoon, at a press conference at Thomas Jefferson High School in Dallas, Gov. Rick Perry called for 10 percent of state funding for higher education to be tied to outcomes such as graduation totals rather than basing the entire amount on enrollment, as is the case now.
House Higher Education Committee Chairman Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, joined Perry at the event. Afterward, he told The Texas Tribune that he thinks the state should go even further than 10 percent. Branch would like to see up to 25 percent of the state's higher education money determined by outcomes ...
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Ric Michaels
Don't these goopers ever learn? All this will do is give colleges (especially the lower- and middle-tier ones) incentives to further dumb down courses so that bad students will end up with a diploma after four years. People like Branch could care less if students actually learn anything -- they just want to make themselves look good.