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bluto

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  1. Listen to the Texas Take podcast from a couple weeks ago. They go into a 30 min deep dive, one thing brought up is a gop party leader in Fort Worth calling out this bill/setup as a vendor bill that’s being set up to benefit those hand picked management companies. They get a cut of the ~8% total admin overhead. If this grows to 5Bn as planned that means there’s $400M in admin fee less whatever the comptroller needs.
  2. Another interesting sidebar… Something I’ve been told by reliable folks at top tier (tuition level at least) private schools is those elite schools aren’t planning to accept vouchers. Don’t need em, don’t want the potential for state bullshit attached.
  3. So a plastic table and chairs are the key to coyote prevention, not the spiral staircase.
  4. Curious how it plays out here. Could see it going either way on where the vouchers end up considering it’s less than 100k kids on a public school system with almost 6M
  5. I guess this goes here https://www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-texas-girl-bullied-over-familys-immigration-status-takes-her-own-life-575984
  6. Far from an expert like Wally but getting the itch to sell off a lot of stuff right now
  7. I’m no expert but 504 might not even matter when dept edu goes away and there’s no oversight on states services for sped.
  8. In current form it’s supposed to go to the poor… but in this case poor is defined as household income up to 155k roughly. Then after that it goes to a lottery or some shit, idk. Homeschoolers get 2500 or something. Special needs students get 12k, but again, no private school is required to accept them and any special ed school worth a shit almost certainly costs much more. the 1Bn kitty is supposed to grow to 5Bn by end decade. ~8% of the total funds will go toward the comptroller to administer it all along with a handful of hand picked ‘program shepherds’ to assist families on navigating it all.
  9. That’s the fault of the democrats you fuckin commie, plus all the illegals students taking up the class seats, free lunch, and overall funding from your little Jackxsyn.
  10. When the opposition is backed by billionaires and our voters are so incredibly dumb, idk man that’s a steep hill. They ruthlessly and shamelessly primaried their own hard right conservatives incumbents over this issue.
  11. Abbott/gop will just run the regular old distraction playbook of socialism, gay hate, and immigration and will retain the overwhelming lions share of supporters currently claiming revolt.
  12. Gotta be bulk orders/gift basket type shit. Only way I can imagine it working. Plus margins on popcorn gotta be insane.
  13. https://texags.com/forums/16/topics/3528209
  14. Seeing reports that immigration judges and staff are being slashed when there’s a near 4 million backlog of immigration cases. I mean it just makes sense to hold the illegal devils in a camp somewhere until their hearing, and we don’t want them just sitting around doing nothing do we? Idle hands and all.
  15. If this small sample is any indication we have a long way to go on pain waking ppl https://apple.news/AlGj8yyl_RaS31q7SZ3LDXA https://www.axios.com/2025/02/14/arizona-voters-trump-elon-musk-executive-orders
  16. The one thing the govt leaders have relied upon is like the stonk thread… revenues/values only go up! Until they don’t. Then shit gets really really fucking dicey very quickly https://www.austinisd.org/announcements/2025/02/14/projected-budget-deficit-widens-local-property-values-decline-en-espanol?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
  17. https://www.austinisd.org/announcements/2025/02/14/projected-budget-deficit-widens-local-property-values-decline-en-espanol?trk=feed_main-feed-card_feed-article-content
  18. Fify
  19. What I’m looking forward to is the kid enrolled at a ~$7500 tuition school currently, said school bumps tuition up to $10k bc why the f not. Said kids family doesn’t get any voucher money and is out an extra 2500 plus having to go to school with the new undesirables
  20. Great (and I’m betting sad) thing is we’ll know the answer to this very soon. I think you’re a fuckin idiot to assume anything above board will occur with Trump and Elon at the helm backed by a nutless congress operating under threat from Elon.
  21. Damn that’s wild seeing both dezavala and daggett on closure watch, that’s essentially all of fairmount and Ryan place wiped out. Surely they would just be consolidated into one
  22. Quick heads up to buy tix on Seatgeek or StubHub. Rangers site wants $45/ea including fees, I just got two StubHub for $26 ea. fuck em.
  23. That's not going to happen to Stripling. My wife is the architect on the new building/renovation (she did Paschal before this). I have no inside info, but my wife pointed out that Stripling now has several dedicated science rooms, a band hall among other things that are completely inappropriate for an elementary school or pretty much anything besides maybe a very small high school. Even FWISD wouldn't just walk away from all the bond money being spent there. Also, that pla presented last night is pretty dependent on some new money (most likely the form of a new medium sized bond) to add classrooms, etc. to the existing schools taking on students from the closed schools (maybe they can use some of the unspent 2021 bond money?). That's even a harder sell if they are viewed as wasting the existing bond money. Good intel and I saw that on the stripling construction page, all the speciality additions. $60M price tag expected, about 50% complete per that site. After seeing what they’ve allowed downtown to turn into along with panther island boondoggle, I’ll never say never with this city. This is not to mention how bad they shit the bed on attracting corp relocations as every other part of dfw exploded with job growth (distribution centers ain’t gonna cut it) also, the library cd purchase was $600k to be spent from 2017 to 2019.
  24. Good lord that would be so perfectly Fort Worth for them to close Stripling MS just as a massive reconstruction comes down the home stretch, paid for by the ‘21 bond package. On par with the library dropping insane cash on a music CD collection ~5 yrs ago. This city’s leadership is so incredibly dumb, gullible, or on the take. Maybe all 3.
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