School finance bill quickly clears Texas Senate [View All]

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http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/06/03/3126831/school-finance-bill-quickly-clears.html

AUSTIN -- Wasting little time in dealing with the dominant issue of the fledgling special session, the Republican-led Texas Senate voted 19-12 to pass a revived revenue and school aid package that had been felled by a Democratic filibuster days earlier.
The nontax revenue measure, which is essential to balance the $172.3 billion two-year budget passed during the final days of the regular session, includes $3.5 billion in savings, much of which comes through a brief deferral in state payments to school districts. The integral school finance component enables the state to implement $4 billion in reduced funding to school districts over the next two years.
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"Through use of rainy-day funds and an end to corporate tax giveaways, we have offered repeatedly to add $4 billion back into public education, but those in charge have refused twice the opportunity to fully fund public education," Davis said. "It is clear that they would prefer to leave options on the table, which is clearly out of touch with the priorities of Texas families."


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The Repubs have gotten everything they want. Now Texans will have to pay. Will Texans make these bastards pay at the ballot box next time? My hands are clean. I have never voted for any state official now in office.