Cross posted at TexasKos
If you were to ask a parent what they most wanted from their public schools , I doubt very seriously anybody would say "fist I want lower property taxes." Yet , governing form their alternate, reality challenged universe that is about all that the Lege did to really fix public education. It finessed adequacy ( as flabby as that is for a standard - imagine Mack Brown telling the Alums at Texas that he now had the resources for an "adequate" football team ), fudged efficiency (which the Teas Supreme Court has ruled means substantially equal state resources for all districts before any local "enhancements", and flat forgot about suitability ( the requirement that the system have the capacity of achieving the other two requirements). But they did give us Tax Cuts ,for now!
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