Burnt Orange Report: Rick Perry on the issues

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Just one little tasty nugget:

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As Texas' schools were rapidly filling up five years ago, Perry mandated a gratuitous 33% cut in local school tax rates. Now, a shocking one in three Texas high school graduates in college require corrective work to learn math, writing and reading skills that their high schools couldn't afford to teach them.

But that was just the groundwork for Perry. When his own fiscal mismanagement led to a $27 billion budget shortfall this year, Perry used the opportunity to slash public education even more.

During the Legislative session, Perry pushed for and received a $4 billion cut from the public education budget, prompting tens of thousands of teacher layoffs across the state. This kind of buffoonery can only lead one place. "Heading into the new fiscal year, Texas ranked 42nd in per-pupil spending among U.S. states and 43rd in high-school graduation rates," Bloomberg News explains.