The Texas Education Agency has submitted a proposal to slash 10 percent of its budget to help close the state's coming shortfall, which could be as much as $21 billion. Among the items on the chopping block: outside-the-classroom expenditures that, Ben Philpott of KUT News and the Tribune reports, could have a dramatic affect on student outcomes.
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Thomas Ratliff
Now the next thing we need to do is give the local INDEPENDENT school districts more local control over how they spend their money. It's hard to hear TEA and the Texas Legislature complain about how school districts spend their money when they are the two most responsible for how the money is spent.
If we gave local school districts more flexibility, my bet is they could find a way to spend the money in more meaningful/effective ways than reporting to the Capitol or TEA.
Just my two cents.
Linda Trumble Schaake via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I belong to the Regional Science Collaboratives that operate out of the ESC's. It is a remarkably useful professional development program that, I hope, will be bolstered by Obama's STEM initiatives and not cut back.