At this morning's TribLive conversation, House Public Education Committee Chairman Rob Eissler, R-The Woodlands, and Vice Chairman Scott Hochberg, D-Houston, disagreed over the theoretical correlation between per-student spending and academic performance.
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Alice Taylor
Our poorest districts spend the least per student on education and get the worst results but tax the most per capita of taxpayer. Our richest districts spend the most per student on education, and get the best results, but the taxpayers in those districts are taxed the least. That's the data.
Eissler has his rich Woodlands constituency to cater to and he's not at all interested in the lower class and middle class children who are being shortchanged by a psychotic school funding system.