Texas leaders have flunked school finance 3 times now

HoustonChronicle.com - Texas leaders have flunked school finance 3 times now: "The Texas Legislature left the Capitol last week, and we're no closer to a school finance solution than we were two years ago. The same governor who declared school finance an emergency in January won't be signing a school finance bill at a public school because, once again, politics came first instead of our children. As Tarrant County Republican Chairwoman Pat Carlson told the Fort Worth Star Telegram, 'School finance wasn't necessarily a priority of the conservative movement.'

When our kids take the TAKS test, they get three attempts to pass or they cannot advance. After failing to address school finance in 2003 when redistricting took priority, and again in 2004 and 2005, Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and House Speaker Tom Craddick have missed three times. Perhaps it's better they struck out, because the plans proposed were shaped by Republican primary politics, wealthy contributors and right-wing think tanks, and would have failed our kids miserably."