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3 hours ago, troph said:

take a page from the other side - find a villain and hammer the message. for progressives and those who care about all people, the villain is the billionaire. hammer the fuck out of us vs them over, and over, and over.

Evolution has hardwired a negativity bias into our DNA. Use it, because unlike litterboxes in bathrooms, the threat from billionaires turning America into a neo-feudal society of techno scam artists is real.

 

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

“some people,” a live look

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Fuck that ugly ass cunt in the Trump shirt many times over and not literally.

She looks like a trailer living dumb fuck.

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if only all trumpers followed his lead ....

Teddy Joseph Von Nukem, 35, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on January 30, according to a report from the Texas County Coroner’s Office in Missouri. That is the same day Von Nukem was scheduled to be in court in Arizona, facing four counts relating to illegal import and sale of fentanyl.

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How the fuck could we have all these ISD elections and hot wheels couldn't get a vote in Houston for Turner's seat?

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How the fuck could we have all these ISD elections and hot wheels couldn't get a vote in Houston for Turner's seat?

Houston ISD didnt have any board elections
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1 hour ago, tx ind said:

How the fuck could we have all these ISD elections and hot wheels couldn't get a vote in Houston for Turner's seat?

Corruption. The answer is always corruption. 

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Texas public school are taking it up the ass this session, is anyone paying attention to this bullshit?

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/14/texas-public-school-funding-legislature/

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Legislators will need to sort out whether to provide public schools with an increase to their base funding for each student and, if so, by how much.

The House has proposed raising the funding, known as the basic allotment, from $6,160 to $6,555 per student. That $395 boost falls well short of the roughly $1,300 increase districts say they need to address inflationary pressures that have only intensified since the Legislature last raised the allotment in 2019.

The Senate, on the other hand, has opposed increasing schools’ base funding this session by any significant amount. The chamber’s education committee announced earlier this week that it would propose doing so by a modest $55 per student.

A $55 increase in the basic allotment per student which hasn't been raised since 2019, go fuck yourself Abbott

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5 minutes ago, elguapo said:

Texas public school are taking it up the ass this session, is anyone paying attention to this bullshit?

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/14/texas-public-school-funding-legislature/

A $55 increase in the basic allotment per student which hasn't been raised since 2019, go fuck yourself Abbott

That's because....and this is very, very important, because it is the foundation, cornerstone, walls, girders, and roof of the political ruling class in Texas....THEY WERE LYING.

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Lawmakers called it the “Texas Two-Step,” promising that passage of a private school voucher bill and a multibillion-dollar public school funding proposal would happen in tandem. But with less than three weeks until the end of the 2025 legislative session, additional funding for cash-strapped public schools is dancing alone.

They lied to get the school voucher bill passed.  "Pass the voucher bill, and we'll increase funding to public schools."  We've passed the school voucher bill.  And....they have broken their promise.

Because there is no part of the political ruling class of Texas that is not built of and for lies.  It's not what they do.  It's what they ARE.

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Superintendents are already coming out and saying that if we get a $55 increase to the basic allotment, expect staff reductions and programs to be cut. It’s an embarrassingly low amount, even for the clowns running our state. As one pundit put it, people passed vouchers to save the hostage and now they are returning the hostage dead, in pieces, and in a body bag.

Even if a slightly larger amount gets passed, we have started negotiations at such a low number, we are going to end up in a really bad place. This is the equivalent of somebody offering you 15k for your 500k house. 

Two things need to happen, and neither will help the kids or the districts.

1. Every superintendent needs to be extremely transparent with their community about what this will mean. Nobody should have any doubts about where blame lies when programs get cut. They have kept quiet in the past and taken the blame for the legislature’s fuck ups.

2. Rural republicans should be publicly shamed by their communities for being little bitches that fucked over their kids and (usually) the largest employer in their area.

Edit: just for some context, the current basic allotment is $6,160 so $55 is less than a 1% increase. Districts have faced massive inflation on building costs, maintenance, busses, and a million other things since the last increase 6 years ago.

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1 minute ago, Chips O'Toole said:

My kids' elementary school (Hays CISD) has already announced they are cutting STEM completely for next year to avoid staff reductions.

If Jesus wanted your kids to know about microchips, science or medicine, he would have added it to the Bible.

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34 minutes ago, Larry T. Spider said:

just for some context, the current basic allotment is $6,160 so $55 is less than a 1% increase.

Like anyone (with a Texas education) could know that.

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35 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I hope my son gets through the next four years of high school with as little fuckery as possible and then goes to college somewhere other than this shithole state.

I'm so thankful both of mine graduate Saturday. 

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37 minutes ago, South Austin said:

I hope my son gets through the next four years of high school with as little fuckery as possible and then goes to college somewhere other than this shithole state.

I have a senior next year then 3 more years to go too. Ugh.

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33 minutes ago, Chips O'Toole said:

My kids' elementary school (Hays CISD) has already announced they are cutting STEM completely for next year to avoid staff reductions.

Damn, STEM has become so fundamental to a well rounded education.  But I had to send both of mine to private school to ensure they would get it.

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On 5/15/2025 at 4:12 PM, elguapo said:

Texas public school are taking it up the ass this session, is anyone paying attention to this bullshit?

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/05/14/texas-public-school-funding-legislature/

A $55 increase in the basic allotment per student which hasn't been raised since 2019, go fuck yourself Abbott

 Nobody gives a fuck. Hell in our district they blamed the budget problems on the current board and want to DOGE the district. We won so I guess some care. But not enough to matter.

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Superintendents are already coming out and saying that if we get a $55 increase to the basic allotment, expect staff reductions and programs to be cut. It’s an embarrassingly low amount, even for the clowns running our state. As one pundit put it, people passed vouchers to save the hostage and now they are returning the hostage dead, in pieces, and in a body bag.
Even if a slightly larger amount gets passed, we have started negotiations at such a low number, we are going to end up in a really bad place. This is the equivalent of somebody offering you 15k for your 500k house. 
Two things need to happen, and neither will help the kids or the districts.
1. Every superintendent needs to be extremely transparent with their community about what this will mean. Nobody should have any doubts about where blame lies when programs get cut. They have kept quiet in the past and taken the blame for the legislature’s fuck ups.
2. Rural republicans should be publicly shamed by their communities for being little bitches that fucked over their kids and (usually) the largest employer in their area.
Edit: just for some context, the current basic allotment is $6,160 so $55 is less than a 1% increase. Districts have faced massive inflation on building costs, maintenance, busses, and a million other things since the last increase 6 years ago.

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If $6000 per student is all they get now and all they need per republicans, why aren’t private school vouchers $6000?  Why the extra 67%?  Aren’t private businesses more efficient than public systems, again per republicans?  Or, why aren’t they increasing the public school per child to the same $10,000 they just approved for private school kids?

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2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If $6000 per student is all they get now and all they need per republicans, why aren’t private school vouchers $6000?  Why the extra 67%?  Aren’t private businesses more efficient than public systems, again per republicans?  Or, why aren’t they increasing the public school per child to the same $10,000 they just approved for private school kids?

I think you know the answer. 

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7 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

If $6000 per student is all they get now and all they need per republicans, why aren’t private school vouchers $6000?  Why the extra 67%?  Aren’t private businesses more efficient than public systems, again per republicans?  Or, why aren’t they increasing the public school per child to the same $10,000 they just approved for private school kids?

It was Abbott’s understanding there would be no math.

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7 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

I think you know the answer. 

Yass, Wilks, Dunn all told Abbott he’d get this done or they’d primary him. He did the same to all our R legislators (and followed through last election cycle). And here we are. 

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1 hour ago, Gap03 said:

Yeah, this is definitely going to be adopted because the Texas lege is that corrupt and/or stupid ...

 

 

56 minutes ago, troph said:

Pure insanity 

"Well it's not against the law, so that means it's perfectly fine to do" - oil barons, probably

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Regarding our public schools, I get all the frustration regarding the lack of funding increases, the existence of vouchers, and discrepancy in public allotment vs. vouchers.

I’m curious though, how does this actually stack up compared to other states? What financial metrics are available to know where Texas falls compared to everyone else? Are there a lot of other states that are doing better, or is everyone slipping in similar fashion?

Perhaps more importantly, what reliable indicators of overall state academic performance are there?

I’m not very well informed on these, so despite my frustrations about the first point, I’d like to better understand the big picture. Suppose I want to move one day and I want K-12 education to be a factor in deciding, how to I begin to evaluate that in the least biased way possible?

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4 minutes ago, wild_turkey said:

Regarding our public schools, I get all the frustration regarding the lack of funding increases, the existence of vouchers, and discrepancy in public allotment vs. vouchers.

I’m curious though, how does this actually stack up compared to other states? What financial metrics are available to know where Texas falls compared to everyone else? Are there a lot of other states that are doing better, or is everyone slipping in similar fashion?

Perhaps more importantly, what reliable indicators of overall state academic performance are there?

I’m not very well informed on these, so despite my frustrations about the first point, I’d like to better understand the big picture. Suppose I want to move one day and I want K-12 education to be a factor in deciding, how to I begin to evaluate that in the least biased way possible?

Some decent graphs here

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Looks like Vikki Goodwin is first out of the gate on the Dem side to run against Patrick for Lt Gov.  

First impression is she’ll lose badly and put district 47 in play as the conservative-moderate alliance in west audience unites over not wanting to be represented by someone named Pooja.

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25 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

Looks like Vikki Goodwin is first out of the gate on the Dem side to run against Patrick for Lt Gov.  

First impression is she’ll lose badly and put district 47 in play as the conservative-moderate alliance in west audience unites over not wanting to be represented by someone named Pooja.

Ugh, west Austin. 

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The most widely used data to compare between states is the NAEP test that is given to 4th graders and 8th graders. Overall, our scores are meh, but so are a lot of other states.

I would argue that school funding is more about everything other than math and reading. Those are the last things to get cut. It’s band, art, music, bus routes, GT, special ed services, more elective options, teacher retention, higher level courses in HS, and any other extras that get cut.

These are often where good public schools excel, and often on the backs of people getting a 3k/year stipend for countless hours of work. Quite a few private school families come back for HS because of these things and AP courses that will be challenging enough for their college bound kids.

Insert the Texas legislature to intentionally sabotage all of that with a 10k voucher and funding that will necessitate cuts to all of the above. Parents are about to get asked for way more money for supplies and various programs

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2 hours ago, Kyrie Eleison said:

LO-fucking-L

 

"And the obsession with freedom, bro?

You have a thousand laws about what you can do with your own body.

You can buy a rifle faster than you can get a library card.

That’s not freedom, that’s live-action satire"

 

"The heat is unbearable. You’re not sweating, you’re slow roasting in cowboy purgatory,

and Texans are out here in denim and boots like its springtime in Paris."

 

"Texas is not a place; its a coping mechanism disguised as a state."

 

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On 5/19/2025 at 9:43 PM, Pato del Muerto said:

If $6000 per student is all they get now and all they need per republicans, why aren’t private school vouchers $6000?  Why the extra 67%?  Aren’t private businesses more efficient than public systems, again per republicans?  Or, why aren’t they increasing the public school per child to the same $10,000 they just approved for private school kids?

They get more than that.  School funding is so complicated that it is almost impossible to understand.

Austin ISD gets about $13,800 to spend per student *after* recapture, which is about $2000 per student more than peer districts.  But their basic allotment is around $6100.  They get extra money because of carve outs and special allocations above the basic allotment.

And spending per student within Austin ISD varies wildly, depending on the school.  LBJ HS spends about $10,000 per student from the general fund and about $21,000 per student from all funds, per year.  At LASA HS, a magnet school close to LBJ that used to be part of LBJ, the district spends about $6700 per student from the general fund and about $7900 from all funds, per year.

LBJ is a smaller school (which means more money per kids spend on admin and building maintenance) with a harder to educate population, which means more money spent per kid trying to help them succeed.

There is no one answer to school funding.  You can spend $8000 per year on an A rated school, if you get to pick the population, and you can spend $21,000 per year on an F rated school, if you have a hard to educate group.

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