The DMN piece - on the front page of the June 30 issue - made mention of AFP as the "conservative" taxpayer advocacy group. Not that I necessarily disagree with the distinction, but articles in past DMN stories have quoted the Center for Public Priorities and other liberal organizations, but Dallas' politically correct media-types refer to them as "organizations that advocate for low-income Texans."
Anyway, Venable's quotes (middle of the article and at the end):
"This is where we need to be. School districts need to be appropriately cautious with their money...This is all a shell game to simply get as much money as they can from the Legislature and taxpayers."
And the end-of-article quote:
"School districts will not be left high and dry," she said. "The taxpayers and lawmakers will not let schools go bankrupt."
To read the article in its entirety, click this link.
2 comments:
Peggy, I read the article and almost threw up a little when I read where the Richardson ISD assistant superintendent equated school budgets to fixed incomes.
I sent a letter to the editor to The Dallas Morning News in response:
School district incomes are fixed alright
I find it a little sickening that Richardson ISD assistant superintendent Tony Harkelroad would equate bloated school district budgets to retirees living on a fixed income (Dallas Morning News; Monday, June 30) in an article about school budgets.
You've got a fixed income alright, Tony. Every school district in this state benefits from being able to tax home and property owners almost out of their homes.
Don't make the analogy of a retiree about to lose his or her home due to excessive taxes to your majority-of-our-tax-bill school district.
If financial straits were so crucial, why do districts keep giving raises during bad economies?
Joey Dauben
News Editor
The Ellis County Press
Palmer, Texas
Thanks for sending that letter to the editor - and for catching that analogy. Some of these pulic school officials just don't get it -- they think they have the right to more and more tax dollars while student outcomes are often getting worse.
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