Perry's school-finance plan quacks like electioneering

HoustonChronicle.com - Robison: Perry's school-finance plan quacks like electioneering: "That's because the governor and the Legislature have at least two escape hatches should lawmakers fail to cut local school taxes, as Perry has demanded, or overhaul the school finance system.

The Legislature simply could reappropriate the public education budget that the governor vetoed. Perry wouldn't veto it again.

Or, lawmakers could go home without doing anything and let the governor and the Legislative Budget Board transfer the vetoed funds to the schools by exercising their budget execution authority."