well...here's how Texas will balance our budget

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.thedailylight.com/articles/2011/01/19/news/doc4d3732d850db9635178109.txt

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas public schools’ budgets would be cut by $5 billion under a preliminary state budget proposal.

The state’s Foundation School Program — the pool of money distributed to schools using formulas based on daily attendance — would be reduced more than $4 billion. Highlights released with the proposal, however, note that the pool of money would be short almost $10 billion below the amount required to fund the school finance formulas under state law.

Budget would close 4 Texas 2-year colleges 


AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Four Texas two-year colleges would be closed to save $39 million in the next two-year state budget under preliminarly spending plan.
Brazosport College in Lake Jackson, Frank Phillips College in Borger, Odessa College and Ranger College would be closed under a plan to slash $145 million in state funding for Texas community and junior colleges.

AUSTIN (AP) — Republican leaders are promising not to raise taxes, but that doesn’t mean Texans won’t be paying more for services in the new state budget.
preliminary spending plan released Tuesday night proposes millions of dollars in new fees. State employees and retirees who smoke would pay a $30-a-month “tobacco user monthly premium surcharge,” raising an estimated $42 million for the budget.
There are also several new fees, worth about $28 million, that would be imposed by the Texas Attorney General’s office, among them an “annual child support service fee,” a “monthly child support processing fee,” an “electronic filing of documents fee,” and a “comprehensive development agreement review fee.”

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas colleges and universities would be cut by $771.6 million in the first draft of the next two-year state budget.
Those cuts include nearly $100 million for the flagship universities Texas A&M University and the University of Texas at Austin.

Austin, Texas (AP) — The first draft of the next Texas state budget would cut $2.3 billion in state general revenue funds from Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program and other health and human services, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Austin, Texas (AP) — The Texas Historical Commission, which oversees preservation of state landmarks and historic buildings, would see a drop of almost 80 percent in its total funding under a preliminary budget proposal.

[w8liftinglady]

1. this is what "fiscal conservatives" look like

[DonCoquixote]

2. arrrgh

about this :

"Austin, Texas (AP) — The Texas Historical Commission, which oversees preservation of state landmarks and historic buildings, would see a drop of almost 80 percent in its total funding under a preliminary budget proposal."

Does this mean that people can start destroying the Alamo and an underfunded department can do squat?

YIPPIE, bring on Ozzy Osbourne to piss on it again!

[MidwestTransplant]

3. Quinticential Repubican thinking. Cut education to save money and have less productive citizens

to pay taxes in the future. Get a brain "Morans."

[wiggs]

8. more people in low paying jobs and the wealthy paying more for their own

education is probably just fine with them. More private schools is just fine. Or more people paying with vouchers to all kinds of schools, including private religious ones, is fine. Bankrupt school districts and states is just fine because then they can raid pensions and break contracts.

The war on public education has been going on for 12 years....and just like many policy areas they are starving government in order to reshape it into a corporate/government partnership in which power and money are even more concentrated than now.

Anyone remember Rush's comment about the New Deal and how they're in the process of 'doing something about that too'? Why isn't that quote played daily after the latest calls for cuts to social security, education, environment, etc??

[MadMaddie]

4. This would make me think that those potential

college students will go to other states to attend college. That means that potentially those educated students will not return to TX. Can you say brain drain?

TX has a huge population of children and they are already in crowded classrooms. See they cut and cut and they never have a plan on how to address the imipact.

[w8liftinglady]

5. my partner teaches in an at-risk school in DISD that will be directly affected

cutting exactly where they DON'T need to be cutting

[UTUSN]

6. K&R #10 nt

[gratuitous]

7. No sense taxing the wealthy

When we can just turn out those lazy kids, who should be working, not shirking by going to "school" (what's the point, anyway? A lot of 'em don't even play football). All those single parents can just go hang; we need more money to subsidize the new Cowboys stadium, so we'll be filching a little each month for "processing."

Sheesh.