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  • I think that it’s now safe to say that we Texans now live in a failed state.  30 years of GOP rule, setting our own standard, living the “Texas Dream,” which they’ve bragged about relentlessly…and let’s see where we are:

    A majority of the state in complete failure, unable to deliver the most BASIC of services (things that are called “utilities,” not “luxuries,” for a reason).  No power.  No water.  No means of clearing roads (that one, I can’t fault the state so much….but it wouldn’t be as big a crisis if people weren’t stuck in their homes with no power and water).  So citizens are stuck in their homes, some of them dying there. 

    Water resource planning?  After pretending for decades that a drought would never happen again, and not doing ANYTHING to develop resources in the state water plan (a document actually developed using science and mathematical projections), we had several locations, including actual cities, down to a few days of water supply.  We’ve finally gotten on our horse a bit, but it may be too late if the next drought comes anytime soon.  

    State rank in key categories:

    Education – 34

    Health Care - 37

    Infrastructure - 33

    Opportunity - 39

    Environment - 44

    Infrastructure - 33 

    In overall quality of life ranking by US News, we are now #38, down from #36 just two years ago.  At that rate, we’ll be in the bottom 3 within ten years.

    We are SUPER independent, and FUCK the feds….but we have requested federal disaster assistance more than any other state in the past decade or so.

    But hey, our economy is ranked #15!

    That’s right, we have a “roaring economy” and the “Texas Miracle!”  But we can’t deliver the basics for our citizens.  The economy is VERY efficient at funneling bazillions to the very few…..with little of it “trickling down” to most Texans.  Yeah, the people on this board generally do fine, but face the facts – we’re the top 10% or so.  We are educated, older, and fortunate.

    Our federal system allows for state-by-state experiments.  Texas is the poster child for near anarcho-capitalism and zero regulation or oversight.  We have tested that approach, for over a generation now (30 years of Republican rule).  That approach is a failure.  The evidence is undeniable, and overwhelming.  It doesn’t matter how many River Oaks millionaires you produce if the rest of your people are dying in their homes.  Shit, some of those River Oaks millionaires might be freezing to death today, too.

    The kids of a middle class family can hardly afford to go to a good state school.  Their prospects for employment are mediocre.  Their prospects of suffering crippling medical debt at some point are significant.  Their chances of not having basic utilities needed for life safety at some point – all but certain.  Their chances of becoming ill or dying from a pollution-caused illness are material.

    What’s the result?  Our leaders have sold Texas as a paradise – move here!  Bring your business here!  And some businesses have done so, adding opportunity…..but providing little to no tax support for the infrastructure we all depend on.  To the contrary, over the past few years, I know more and more people – educated people, people who can do their jobs elsewhere, who are looking to bail on this state.  It’s people with young kids, who want them to grow up in a better place.  It’s people in their working years, who simply want a better path.  It’s retirees, who want a safe and secure place to live.

    We have consumed our seed stock.  We have burned through our reserves.  We are now consuming ourselves.  The ability to pitch Texas as the land of opportunity is done.  Seeing what we have become, the tentative thought/plan my wife and I had of wrapping up our careers here and then getting the hell out of Dodge is becoming much more concrete.  My children are already unlikely to make their future in this state.  Now we are, too.

    But the response from the Republican leadership and their sycophants – “how are you gonna pay for it?  Taxes?  That’s socialism!  You want that stuff, you have to pay for it!”

    Fuck yes I do, and I’m okay with that.  I want groceries…so I have to pay HEB.  I want a car…so I have to pay Ford.  I want clothes…..so I have to pay Dillards.  I want my population educated….so I have to pay the school district.  I want electricity, with enough capacity to keep us running when we need it…..so I have to pay my bill, maybe with a capacity surcharge.  I want water to come out of the taps….so I have to pay for development of resources and maintenance of infrastructure.  I want roads….so I pay taxes to build and maintain them.  YES, I have to pay for all of those things, and “nothing is free” – no fucking shit.  So, let’s pay for it.  We have the #15 economy….we HAVE the funds in this state.  An economy with the flow of funds that ours has can produce and maintain all of those results.  But we have chosen a different path; funnel all the dollars to the top, and spend next to nothing for the public good.  We have privatized profit….we have socialized the costs.  And we are dying because of it.

    My fellow Texans are dying in their homes….and there’s nothing I can do about it today.  And I am enraged.

    I love Texas.  I am 6th generation here.  My ancestors have Texas historical markers on their graves.  We helped make this state, and this state helped make us.  It educated us (back when college was affordable).  But it’s time to face the fact – this state is a failure, and on its current path, with its current leadership and philosophy, it will only get worse.  This state has a terrible future, unless we dramatically change our path.   Chances of that happening?  0.0% -- because we’ll continue to vote for the guys who make our leadership priorities bathroom bills, and transgender sports, and requiring the national anthem be played at certain events.  Any bill that has been proposed to improve emergency preparedness of gov’t entities has been crushed by the Republicans controlling the lege….but we will definitely stick with those guys.  No taxes.  No government functionality.

    What we are seeing happening right now is our system working EXACTLY AS IT WAS DESIGNED AND INTENDED TO WORK.  And we will, I guarantee it, collectively decide to stick with that.  This state is in free-fall, and anyone with eyes can see it.  And anyone with a brain is starting to think of ways to make their life elsewhere.  It breaks my goddamned heart to see us commit collective suicide, but here we are.

     

     


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    wild_turkey

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    Is there any language about what types of private schools can qualify for the voucher funds?

    We are currently watching Harvard, one of the most prestigious private academic institutions in the history of the world, battle our federal government for its future due to not sharing Trump’s values.

    Once the Texas state government, which aspires to be as MAGA as possible, starts making payments to private K-12 schools, does anyone really think those schools will remain in control of their own curriculum and values?

    Pam Cummings

    Posted

    40 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

    Shit I need to open a charter school and get me some of that free money.

    School for Surlies, let's make it happen.

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    Bookman

    Posted

    Lesson One: OU sucks. 

    Satchel

    Posted

    Ten grand is gonna put a nice dent in that Jesuit tuition bill.

    HalfSack Horn

    Posted

    1 hour ago, pyrohornIII said:

    Now they are pushing hard on property tax rebates for those who choose to pull out of public ed and send their kids to private.   This could be even more devastating to the small rural schools due to how many they stand to lose to home schooling.  Especially in the elementary years.  Then after jr high, they want to send them back to the public system for a variety of reasons.  A public ISD that will be damaged by the loss of those tax rebates in the lower grades.

     

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    Also, more and more homes are owned by investors, private equity, etc.   you think they will keep paying property taxes.  This would be an automatic and immediate funding disaster.   Fuck these people 

    Ghost of LL

    Posted

    30 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    Ten grand is gonna put a nice dent in that Jesuit tuition bill.

    Ha--as if the private schools aren't just going to increase their tuition rates by $10K.

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    royiv

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Ha--as if the private schools aren't just going to increase their tuition rates by $10K.

    This. It’s free money for the Kinkaids and St. Johns of the world. 

    Pato del Muerto

    Posted (edited)

    But there will be a new level of private school where tuition is $10k per year and the kids don’t learn shit as there are 100 of them in some free church basement doing fuckall while one or two adults are in  corner counting their million dollars. 

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    royiv

    Posted

    4 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    But there will be a new level of private school where tuition is $10k per year and the kids don’t learn shit as there are 100 of them in some free church basement doing fuckall while one or two adults are in  corner counting their million dollars. 

    Also this. The fundies are going to have a field day with this grifting opportunity. They’ll be running glorified daycares in their basements.

    pyrohornIII

    Posted

    41 minutes ago, HalfSack Horn said:

    Also, more and more homes are owned by investors, private equity, etc.   you think they will keep paying property taxes.  This would be an automatic and immediate funding disaster.   Fuck these people 

    Could we have another housing bubble blow up and end up with the schools holding a lot of properties?    And even then, in that depressed market i would assume those with huge money would swoop in and buy those properties dirt cheap on the courthouse steps?  Just seems tailor made to push more wealth into the oilgarch's accounts.

     

    Hank Scorpio

    Posted (edited)

    24 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:

    But there will be a new level of private school where tuition is $10k per year and the kids don’t learn shit as there are 100 of them in some free church basement doing fuckall while one or two adults are in  corner counting their million dollars. 

    Actually they are called Hank Scorpio Underground Learning Centers and the kids also have to build the basement learning center. 

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    pyrohornIII

    Posted

    31 minutes ago, Hank Scorpio said:

    Actually they are called Hank Scorpio Underground Learning Centers and the kids also have to build the basement learning center. 

    you get extra for also teaching them a trade!

     

     

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    Satchel

    Posted

    The billionaire preacher who bought this bill is the founder of Midland Classical Academy. Now, all of his friends get a 10k break on tuition. A lot of skulduggery was necessary to create this coincidence.

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    dcbc

    Posted (edited)

    2 hours ago, Pam Cummings said:

    School for Surlies, let's make it happen.

    Schola ad Surly: Schola Assholes

     

    Alternative:

     

    Our Lady of Surly: IPIHB

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Ha--as if the private schools aren't just going to increase their tuition rates by $10K.

    every private school with a wait list will increase $10k, some won't want anything to do with state money  

    Pato del Muerto

    Posted

    17 minutes ago, Satchel said:

    The billionaire preacher who bought this bill is the founder of Midland Classical Academy. Now, all of his friends get a 10k break on tuition. A lot of skulduggery was necessary to create this coincidence.

    The concept of billionaire preachers is so comical it should be illegal just based on absurdity. Yet, there are quite a few. 

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    2 hours ago, royiv said:

    This. It’s free money for the Kinkaids and St. Johns of the world. 

     

    no way kincaid is accepting state money, but enjoy that $10k increase 

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    Brisketexan

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    But there will be a new level of private school where tuition is $10k per year and the kids don’t learn shit as there are 100 of them in some free church basement doing fuckall while one or two adults are in  corner counting their million dollars. 

    Oh, I see you have heard of Brisketexan’s FreedomEagleJesusGunLiberty Academy of Freedom, Jesus, and Guns. We’re accepting applications now from truly outstanding applicants*.


    * Anyone who can pay $20k a year to have kids taught 100 at a time by an AI model regurgitating stuff from NewsMax with one proctor/supervisor in a cheap metal warehouse.
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    Im_smarter_then_you

    Posted

    AU contraire mis amigos 

     

    Spoiler

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    Just wow!!!😲 I can't believe this, Did you know???

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    It will blow your mind!!!!
    Texas is also the State with the largest number of Hispanics, particularly of Mexican origin, Latino and Latino men and women who have made the State transcend
    Also remember that before it was Mexican territory of brave men and women as until this time and moment... 

    Blessings to all our Brothers and Sisters of Texas

    Baylor is the only university, in existence today that was founded when we were the republic of Texas! 

    🐄🐄🐄 The triangular region framed in by the cities of Austin, Dallas–Fort Worth, Houston, and San Antonio is experiencing a wave of growth of historic proportions more than anywhere in the world.

    ️ In 2020, the population of the Texas Triangle reached nearly 21 million.

    💥 the Texas Triangle contains five of the 20 largest cities in the U.S., and was home to more than 70% of all Texans: City of Dallas, City of Fort Worth, City of Austin, City of Houston  and City of San Antonio 

    🛫The Dallas Fort Worth International Airport (DFW) is bigger than all of Manhattan.

    🏞️The The University of Texas at Austin is the third largest land owner in the United States. 

    🌮San Antonio is bigger than New York City and Detroit combined. 

    👨‍👩‍👧‍👦👩‍👩‍👧‍👦Houston has a bigger population than Colorado and 34 other states. 

    🏢Four of the top ten metro statistical areas are in Texas.

    🔥 The Texas economy is on fire. The state added 660,000 new jobs last year – more jobs than any other, and twice the number of new jobs compared to its historical average. With Dallas by far leading the growth. 

    📆 50,000 jobs a month, I mean, that’s almost 2,000 jobs a day every day of the week for an entire year.

    No state income tax

    The Tex-a-plex is home to over 50 Fortune 500 companies. And has more Fortune 1000 companies than any other state. 

    💰 At 2.4 TRILLION, Texas is ranked as the 9th largest economy among nations of the world by GDP, ahead of Canada, South Korea, Russia, and Australia.

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    💵Dallas is home to the fourth most BILLIONAIRES in the world. 

    💡Houston has more than 5,000 energy related firms and is the energy capital of the world. 

    🩻The Texas Medical Center is the largest in the world located in Houston. 

    🎁25% of ALL retail space in the United States is in Texas.

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    🤽‍♀️⛹️♀️🏌🏻The are 12 professional sports teams in the Tex-A-Plex.

    📘📗📕 You can further your education in the great state of Texas at any one of the 159 universities and colleges in order to prepare yourself for a successful and prosperous career. Including 6 medical schools. 

    Texas A&M University has an enrollment of 74,829 the largest 
    student body in the United States

    -reposted because I didn’t know all of this and found it interesting!
    Texas state Quilt  Order from here ❤️🛒 👇
    https://ournewdesing.shop/products/texas-quilt-2

     

    bluto

    Posted

    Have heard from folks in the know in Fort Worth private school circles that the big dogs have agreed to not accept vouchers. 

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    6 minutes ago, bluto said:

    Have heard from folks in the know in Fort Worth private school circles that the big dogs have agreed to not accept vouchers. 

     

    heard the same about hou schools 

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    C-Man

    Posted

     
    no way kincaid is accepting state money, but enjoy that $10k increase 

    This is what happened in Arkansas
    C-Man

    Posted

    The billionaire preacher who bought this bill is the founder of Midland Classical Academy. Now, all of his friends get a 10k break on tuition. A lot of skulduggery was necessary to create this coincidence.

    He’s one of the two shitbags that CNN did the “Follow the Money” piece a few years ago. UT grad and all around good dude Ed Lavandera of CNN did most of the reporting.
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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    2 hours ago, Satchel said:

    The billionaire preacher who bought this bill is the founder of Midland Classical Academy. Now, all of his friends get a 10k break on tuition. A lot of skulduggery was necessary to create this coincidence.

     

    rates are going up 

    PenelopeWitherspoon

    Posted

    This will go to shitty "Christian" schools that barely educate kids. There is going to be generations of Texas kids that will be worse off than the generation before them. 

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    wild_turkey

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    This will go to shitty "Christian" schools that barely educate kids. There is going to be generations of Texas kids that will be worse off than the generation before them. 

    I would say something along the lines of “the world needs Christian ditch diggers,” except that I’m starting to think the entire country will be in anarchy and civil war by that point, so maybe I shouldn’t lose too much sleep over school vouchers. A $10k voucher is meaningless when Trump runs Powell out and replaces him with a sycophant that drives inflation up and eggs cost $192/dozen.

    It’s like worrying about the wine offerings as the Titanic is sinking. The priority should be finding a life boat or anything that might float.
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    C-Man

    Posted


    I would say something along the lines of “the world needs Christian ditch diggers,” except that I’m starting to think the entire country will be in anarchy and civil war by that point, so maybe I shouldn’t lose too much sleep over school vouchers. A $10k voucher is meaningless when Trump runs Powell out and replaces him with a sycophant that drives inflation up and eggs cost $192/dozen.

    It’s like worrying about the wine offerings as the Titanic is sinking. The priority should be finding a life boat or anything that might float.

    At this point, I don’t want to float. Give me the good wine to drink as I’m freezing to death in the Atlantic with Kate Winslett.
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    UpperWestside

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    2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:


    Oh, I see you have heard of Brisketexan’s FreedomEagleJesusGunLiberty Academy of Freedom, Jesus, and Guns. We’re accepting applications now from truly outstanding applicants*.


    * Anyone who can pay $20k a year to have kids taught 100 at a time by an AI model regurgitating stuff from NewsMax with one proctor/supervisor in a cheap metal warehouse.

    I need Jesus in the school name for a 3rd time. 

    And your school should only be about teaching kids how to make a brisket. That's it. They want to eat lunch each day? Better show up at 3am ready to cook or go home hungry. 

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    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    9 minutes ago, mchookem said:

     

    fuck you !!!

    In his X post, Lieutenant Governor Patrick said:"In 2021, the faculty senate at the University of Texas at Austin arrogantly stated that they were not accountable to the Texas Legislature or UT Board of Regents. They passed a resolution stating they were going to teach Critical Race Theory to UT students no matter what the legislature or taxpayers thought.

    "I replied at the time: 'I will not stand by and let looney Marxist UT professors poison the minds of young students with Critical Race Theory. We banned it in publicly funded K-12 and we would ban it in publicly funded higher ed.' Tonight, with final passage of Senate Bill 37, the faculty senate at the University of Texas at Austin had their power stripped and found out the Legislature does have authority over faculty senates after all!

    "Here's an idea for them to consider: these looney Marxist UT professors should find a friendly blue state to move to so we can fill their roles with quality conservative professors who will teach critical thinking. Yippie Ki Yay! Adios! Sayonara! Auf Wiedersehen! Au Revoir! In every language you can possibly think of: Goodbye!"

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    Paper_jam

    Posted

    "...university courses in Texas can't "require or attempt to require a student to adopt a belief that any race, sex, or ethnicity or social, political or religious belief is inherently superior to any other."

    Wait--isn't this the same thing as moral relativism? Which I thought conservatives hated? This sounds like they can't teach that White European Colonial culture is superior, or that Christianity is better than Islam.

    Is this like the time they accidentally banned all marriage by trying to ban gay marriage?

     

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    Larry T. Spider

    Posted

    Louisiana had a bunch of creationist whack job schools open up after they passed vouchers. There was actually a little bit of academic accountability and the schools scored horribly. After 7 years, 66% of the students attended a D or F school.

    We will never know how they do in Texas because there will be no accountability ratings.

    tx 3 putt

    Posted

    24 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

    Louisiana had a bunch of creationist whack job schools open up after they passed vouchers. There was actually a little bit of academic accountability and the schools scored horribly. After 7 years, 66% of the students attended a D or F school.

    We will never know how they do in Texas because there will be no accountability ratings.

     

    zero state testing in private schools are a good start 

    UpperWestside

    Posted

    Well you finally did it Texas. You've stolen from everyone else in the state that you could except, you know, children. Congratulations on finally crossing the threshold from run of the mill grifters to now taking advantage of kids. This is the moment that education in Texas ceased to exist in any meaningful form. Sure, there will be teachers who hang in there to do right by kids that they know have no hope, but eventually those teachers will be run off and that's when you really go full 3rd world education. Hopefully everyone that has the ability to get out does. For those that don't hopefully some other states throw a life raft to you to get you out of the cesspool.

    Oh and I remember saying a couple of years back that I would no longer make fun of Abbott for being in a wheelchair. Well now he's done the thing that angers me the most and that's using children's education to turn a profit while screwing hundreds of thousands of kids over. Hot Wheels you are a trash human being. I don't wish death on you. To the contrary I hope you live to 130 and that you eventually have to meet some of the kids whose lives you messed with. I hope they succeed in spite of you and that one day they come back and get control of the state and make your life a living hell every single moment you are still here you worthless limp-legged clown. I'd say you'd stand up to them, but that tree kinda took care of that a few decades ago. Anyone that supports Abbott I hope a tree finds you as well.

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    fuggled

    Posted

    I haven't seen this explained anywhere, so hoping someone can clarify.  How do the senate and house voucher bills impact the basic allotment?  If the allotment is $6500 and vouchers are $10,000, does the private school get $10K and the public school lose $6500?  Or does the public school keep the allotment? 

    bluto

    Posted

    2 minutes ago, fuggled said:

    I haven't seen this explained anywhere, so hoping someone can clarify.  How do the senate and house voucher bills impact the basic allotment?  If the allotment is $6500 and vouchers are $10,000, does the private school get $10K and the public school lose $6500?  Or does the public school keep the allotment? 

    I could be wrong both understanding your question and my grasp of the system, but the ‘$6500’ follows the student at least in terms of the pub school loses that money bc the kid is no longer enrolled. 
    There was talk about giving rural schools a wad of cash to offset this for a yr or two, not sure if that ended up in play. 
    worth noting that vouchers are funded by the general fund pool from the state, it’s an entirely new expense technically separate from school funding (tho it will impact school funding due to enrollment shifts)

    fuggled

    Posted

    13 minutes ago, bluto said:

    I could be wrong both understanding your question and my grasp of the system, but the ‘$6500’ follows the student at least in terms of the pub school loses that money bc the kid is no longer enrolled. 
    There was talk about giving rural schools a wad of cash to offset this for a yr or two, not sure if that ended up in play. 
    worth noting that vouchers are funded by the general fund pool from the state, it’s an entirely new expense technically separate from school funding (tho it will impact school funding due to enrollment shifts)

    Yeah, that gets at what I'm wondering about.  Very curious to hear about any mechanisms to keep the public school "whole" when voucher kids leave.  If a few kids take vouchers, schools can't just hire 90% of a teacher.  Unfortunately I expect the answer is just cut teachers and cram more kids into fewer classrooms.

    miguelito

    Posted

    22 minutes ago, fuggled said:

    I haven't seen this explained anywhere, so hoping someone can clarify.  How do the senate and house voucher bills impact the basic allotment?  If the allotment is $6500 and vouchers are $10,000, does the private school get $10K and the public school lose $6500?  Or does the public school keep the allotment? 

    My understanding is that the rich will get richer, and the poor can fuck right off. 

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    Texas Jeff

    Posted

    29 minutes ago, fuggled said:

    I haven't seen this explained anywhere, so hoping someone can clarify.  How do the senate and house voucher bills impact the basic allotment?  If the allotment is $6500 and vouchers are $10,000, does the private school get $10K and the public school lose $6500?  Or does the public school keep the allotment? 

    Public school funding is based on WADA ... or Weighted Average Daily Attendance.  They get money based on a student butt in a seat on a given day.  The basic allotment is based on the kid's butt being in the seat 100% of the days the school is open.  Or ... on a school field trip or whatever.  Being counted present for the day.

    So, if a kid lives in the Del Valle ISD but transfers to Austin ISD, Austin ISD gets the $6500 for that kid.
    If a kid lives in Austin ISD but is enrolled in Regents, a private school, Austin ISD gets $0 for that kid.

    The public school does not "keep" the allotment because the allotment was never made, because the private school kid is not enrolled in the district.

    If a kid lives in Austin ISD and attends Austin ISD, but the parents decide to pull the kid out of school for a week for a ski trip, the school gets $0 basic allotment funding for that kid for the days missed.  The school still has expenses, lights, A/C, pay the teacher, pay the bus driver, provide the bus, they just don't have basic allotment funding for that kid for those days.

    If the Regents kid get a new school voucher, they have $10,000 they can spend at Regents.  It does not affect Austin ISD's funding.  Regents charges $21,000 per year in tuition.  Regents can choose to discount tuition for that kid because they are bringing a $10,000 voucher to the school, or they can keep tuition right where it is and suddenly Regents has an additional $10,000.  I have not heard of a WADA component for the vouchers, so it's possible that this is $10,000 per year, even if the kid misses school for a week.

    CooterBrown

    Posted

    Thanks, TEA.

    Our solid middle school is about to be fucked. It’s already over capacity and we get to absorb an entire middle school next year.

    If this happens, odds are good I will move to Colorado with my 6th grader and my wife will stay in Austin to finish out her last couple of years at the state so she can fully retire at 52.


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    C-Man

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    My understanding is that the rich will get richer, and the poor can fuck right off. 

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    South Austin

    Posted

    1 minute ago, CooterBrown said:

    Thanks, TEA.

    Our solid middle school is about to be fucked. It’s already over capacity and we get to absorb an entire middle school next year.

    If this happens, odds are good I will move to Colorado with my 6th grader and my wife will stay in Austin to finish out her last couple of years at the state so she can fully retire at 52.


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    I got that message also. My youngest is an eighth grader at Lamar, so I won’t have a kid directly impacted by this, but it still sucks all around. I’m just hoping he gets through the next four years at McCallum with as little fuckery from our shitty state as possible, and then goes off to college out of state like his sister.

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    JBJ

    Posted

    16 hours ago, Ghost of LL said:

    Ha--as if the private schools aren't just going to increase their tuition rates by $10K.

    This is exactly what GA preschools did when we passed PK4 funding.  It's actually more expensive to do PK4 than PK3 now.

    pyrohornIII

    Posted

    2 hours ago, bluto said:

    I could be wrong both understanding your question and my grasp of the system, but the ‘$6500’ follows the student at least in terms of the pub school loses that money bc the kid is no longer enrolled. 
    There was talk about giving rural schools a wad of cash to offset this for a yr or two, not sure if that ended up in play. 
    worth noting that vouchers are funded by the general fund pool from the state, it’s an entirely new expense technically separate from school funding (tho it will impact school funding due to enrollment shifts)

    If (When) they pass something like HB3938 that will be the death knell to so many rural schools.  Especially if they accept home schooling as a viable alternative to public ed.  That's the bill that gives the kids a "scholarship" for alternative education sources besides public schools.  And when presented that a child is enrolled in an accepted alternative, then their parents get a property tax refund not to exceed the allotment.  So not only would the ISD lose the allotment from the state, they lose the local tax stream for that child as well.  

     

    It's a whole movement, and I assume it's the next step down the destruction path for our public schools.  They won't be happy until all the poors are in homeschooling pods that harken back to Little House on the Prairie days.  

    https://www.texaspolicy.com/property-taxes-in-texas-must-go/

    Larry T. Spider

    Posted

    3 hours ago, CooterBrown said:

    Thanks, TEA.

    Our solid middle school is about to be fucked. It’s already over capacity and we get to absorb an entire middle school next year.

    If this happens, odds are good I will move to Colorado with my 6th grader and my wife will stay in Austin to finish out her last couple of years at the state so she can fully retire at 52.


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    Accountability and test scores are really important to the state. So important that they can take over control of your district, force you to close schools, or even remove your publicly elected school board. After all, you are getting taxpayer money.

    *private schools getting state money need not apply

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    The Dark Knight

    Posted

    What do you all think about Kendall Scudder, the new Texas Democratic Party Chair? He seems to be making a visible presence at the Capitol. If TX Dems ever had a time to grow their influence this is it. Besides everything that the Dotard and Musk are doing, opposition to vouchers should be a rallying point. Anecdotally I have been encouraged by how many acquaintances on social media who have historically voted Republican are really pissed off about vouchers.

    South Austin

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    56 minutes ago, The Dark Knight said:

    Anecdotally I have been encouraged by how many acquaintances on social media who have historically voted Republican are really pissed off about vouchers.

    Have you told them they’re still getting vouchers?

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    Larry T. Spider

    Posted

    Many republicans will be pissed about vouchers. Then comes the most important part.

    They will line up to vote republican over and over again because trans ghey drag queens are playing girls sports. Somewhere. They aren’t sure where, but it’s happening somewhere. Probably California. And Austin.

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    SimonBolivar

    Posted

    21 hours ago, Bookman said:

    Lesson One: OU sucks. 

    Not at the Wichita Falls School of Christianity and Buc-ee's Services™️

    Is it OK that I feel like I don't want to live anymore?” Currently TX 45-45  OK in 2OT : r/KingOfTheHill

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