"At a news conference in Austin, state Democratic leaders called for the Legislature to increase funding for education and raise teacher pay."
Many of the most expensive public school districts in this nation have some of the absolutely worst student outcomes. How much money is spent on each student has zero to do if that student learned anything.
At this point, school districts headed by minorities see school systems as nothing but a job program for adults, with patronage jobs getting handed out by school board members to their supporters.
They do not care if any of those kids graduating high school can read, not their problem, they got a job making six figures doing nothing.
Which is one if the reasons why the left despises home schooling and private education,.
Break the teacher's union by starving the government schools of both students and tax money and the left loses tens of millions from them each election cycle.
Just remember to also attack the standards-setting institutions like the College Board, International Baccalaureate, and the various Departments of Education. If you don't hit those as well, people will be put in a position to indoctrinate their own children.
"At a news conference in Austin, state Democratic leaders called for the Legislature to increase funding for education and raise teacher pay."
Many of the most expensive public school districts in this nation have some of the absolutely worst student outcomes. How much money is spent on each student has zero to do if that student learned anything.
At this point, school districts headed by minorities see school systems as nothing but a job program for adults, with patronage jobs getting handed out by school board members to their supporters.
They do not care if any of those kids graduating high school can read, not their problem, they got a job making six figures doing nothing.
But teacher and administrative pay has a direct correlation with donations to democratic campaigns and ngos.
Which is one if the reasons why the left despises home schooling and private education,. Break the teacher's union by starving the government schools of both students and tax money and the left loses tens of millions from them each election cycle.
Just remember to also attack the standards-setting institutions like the College Board, International Baccalaureate, and the various Departments of Education. If you don't hit those as well, people will be put in a position to indoctrinate their own children.