News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | HEADLINES | Why the session failed

News 8 Austin | 24 Hour Local News | HEADLINES | Why the session failed: "Anything can happen in Texas politics. But for all practical purposes, this special session is dead. The three-year struggle to deal with school finance and property taxes died of mixed motives, bad faith and an adversarial attitude toward educators not shared by a substantial portion of the Republican House and Senate majorities.

The problems this session have been compounded by an increasingly paralyzing lack of trust and good will permeating the entire Capitol."