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By Dr. Harry Tennant
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 In The News: Who Needs Teaching Jobs, Texas Is Looking For Jobs In Other Sectors Of Our Economy The WFAA.com article below details Governor Rick Perry's efforts to produce jobs in Texas by spending big money....while allowing education jobs in Texas to evaporate like never before. The loss of these teaching jobs is sure to have a ripple effect on local communities, in varying degrees. A few key quotes follow: "He used the word 19 times in his recent state of the state address and has made it a top spending priority. But if Perry realizes his vision of a budget balanced through cuts alone, 100,000 teachers could lose their jobs. That's about a third of the 333,000 teachers employed by Texas public schools....." ....."In the current budget, schools got $50 billion in state and federal money to teach 4.8 million students. Proposed budgets would short Texas schools $10 billion, a figure that includes money that would be necessary to pay for an estimated 160,000 new students expected to enroll over the next two years." Click the photo above to access the full story on WFAA.com
Posted at 12:12 PM Keywords: In The News , Budgets , School Financing , Texas 0 Comments |