Visit my GLBT Petition Face Book page. -Jim
Bill White was just previously the Mayor of Houston. Bill is campaigning to become the next governor of Texas, leaving the job of mayor to the competent Annise Parker. To put it mildly, Texas has a lot of serious problems due to the decade-long mis-management of the current sitting governor. On Bill White's website there is an article pertaining to the quality of education in Texas:
Numbers don't lie: dropouts cost Texans and Texas dearly. -"In recent days, the media, education experts, and even a Republican State Representative echoed Bill White's critique and challenge of Rick Perry's false dropout numbers. Regardless of what some are calling Perry's "head in the sand" approach, the economic costs associated with Texas' students dropping out are astronomical."
Rick Perry: Fact vs. Fiction on Education, Dropout Problem
Texas has a serious drop-out problem. The long-term costs are tremendous both personally and financially and fiscally. Read Lisa Falkenberg's article in The Chronicle.
"n the face of years of research showing the rate upwards of 30 percent, and as high as 50 percent in some large urban districts, Perry's camp insisted it was only about 10 percent." -Lisa Falkenberg's article in The Chronicle.
"Since Rick Perry is continuing the strategy of sticking his head in a hole and ignoring real problems, Democratic Candidate, Mayor Bill White, sent out some information today informing the Governor of the real problems facing Texas dropouts.
" -Mat Glazer, Burnt Orange Report.
"The Bill White Campaign provided Texans some cold, hard facts on the state of public education in Texas: Rick Perry has failed our children." -
Rick Perry Creates His Own Dropout Rate. Follow the preceding link and download the pdf to read it for yourself. If you care about Texas, this is the sort of information you should have.
"The dropout rate can be calculated in various ways causing confusion among policy makers and analysts." -The ABCD's Executive Summary (the pdf).
"A recent study by researchers at Texas A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Policy found that actual dropout rates could be nearly double what TEA reports."
Read the Texas Supreme Court Case: Shirley Neeley, Texas Commissioner of Education Et. Al. v West Orange-Cove Consolidated. Argued July 6, 2005. Determined whether the funding of Texas schools violates the Texas constitution. The West-Orange Cove Consolidated School District et al were the plaintiffs in this case. The public school system in Texas cannot achieve a "general diffusion of knowledge." as required by article VII of the Texas Constitution due to the fact that the school system is underfunded. (California has the same problem, but, there it is due to prop 13 and other voter initiatives.)
"A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provisions for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools. " -Texas Constitution, Art. VII.
There is not equal access to educational funds. Is public education achieving the general diffusion of knowledge the Constitution requires? The district court found in favor of the school districts, but not for the inefficient operations (funding.) The legal battle is continuing.
Texas has a little over 4.3 million children in public schools.
http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/
JIM
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Tea Party
"Indeed, the rightward tilt of the state's GOP electorate permitted another Tea Party insurgent to mount a respectable run without serving as a spoiler to Perry's similarly themed campaign. Debra Medina, a darling of the far right, recently made headlines for questioning the government's involvement in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but came in with about the same 16 percent showing that polls registered prior to her gaffe. -http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100304/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1213
The rightward slant of the Republican party in Texas portends ill for its citizens and residents alike. A state already gerrymandered to the Republican's advantage, allowing a comfortable margin for incompetence, is being pulled toward a radical part of the political spectrum.
The Tea Party rejects any workable form of federalism where the Federal government plays a necessarily central role in funding large projects, such as roads and dams, and provides funding for necessary functions, such as public education.
"But by the time Republican voters went to the polls here in a primary on Tuesday, the political ground had shifted under Senator Hutchison, who lost in a three-way race to Mr. Perry." -link to NY Times Article.
The Tea Party candidates posit themselves as outsiders. But, Rick Perry has been governor for over 10 years.
http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/
If you really want change, elect someone who hasn't been governor for 10 years. Bill White handily beat several other Democratic challengers, and, Bill White doesn't have to hide under a false agenda.
The Tea Party is a mis-informed tax revolt married to a wild-eyed dream of secession. All States require federal money to complete big projects because this is the tax money not hijacked by regional petty thievery, and, back-stabbing. It provides the wealth to the communities too poor to educate their own children or pave their own streets. And it provides a necessary counterweight to local lapses in judgment.
Don't leave the future of Texas in the hands of a movement that would send us back into the Dark Ages; where a decent education is a luxury, and a decent life is a far-off dream. This is the movement that would deny you your unemployment benefits. In fact, Governor Perry already has.
The rightward slant of the Republican party in Texas portends ill for its citizens and residents alike. A state already gerrymandered to the Republican's advantage, allowing a comfortable margin for incompetence, is being pulled toward a radical part of the political spectrum.
The Tea Party rejects any workable form of federalism where the Federal government plays a necessarily central role in funding large projects, such as roads and dams, and provides funding for necessary functions, such as public education.
"But by the time Republican voters went to the polls here in a primary on Tuesday, the political ground had shifted under Senator Hutchison, who lost in a three-way race to Mr. Perry." -link to NY Times Article.
The Tea Party candidates posit themselves as outsiders. But, Rick Perry has been governor for over 10 years.
http://www.billwhitefortexas.com/
If you really want change, elect someone who hasn't been governor for 10 years. Bill White handily beat several other Democratic challengers, and, Bill White doesn't have to hide under a false agenda.
The Tea Party is a mis-informed tax revolt married to a wild-eyed dream of secession. All States require federal money to complete big projects because this is the tax money not hijacked by regional petty thievery, and, back-stabbing. It provides the wealth to the communities too poor to educate their own children or pave their own streets. And it provides a necessary counterweight to local lapses in judgment.
Don't leave the future of Texas in the hands of a movement that would send us back into the Dark Ages; where a decent education is a luxury, and a decent life is a far-off dream. This is the movement that would deny you your unemployment benefits. In fact, Governor Perry already has.
Capitol Building -Austin
State Capitol Complex:
11th and Congress.
Parking at the intersection's southeast Corner, and 1500 block of Congress.
Larger than any other state capitol.
11th and Congress.
Parking at the intersection's southeast Corner, and 1500 block of Congress.
Larger than any other state capitol.
Texas Employment Law
"Texas employment law does NOT prohibit workplace discrimination and/or termination based upon sexual orientation, gender identity, or marital status." -Equality Texas
"The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), federal legislation that would add sexual orientation as a protected class against discrimination, has been proposed but failed in the past few years. But it is expected that President Obama and the a stronger Democratic majority in Congress will pass and enact the law in 2009." -HRHero.com
http://www.hrhero.com/topics/sex_discrimination.html
"The Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), federal legislation that would add sexual orientation as a protected class against discrimination, has been proposed but failed in the past few years. But it is expected that President Obama and the a stronger Democratic majority in Congress will pass and enact the law in 2009." -HRHero.com
http://www.hrhero.com/topics/sex_discrimination.html
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It has articles on travel and leisure in Texas. Also, information pertaining to equality.
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