Letters to the Editor
Hillcrest High School band members and student-athletes greet students at John J. Pershing Elementary School on the first day of classes Aug. 12, 2024, in Dallas. Readers write about how to save Texas public schools.Re: “To improve Texas schools, state must help — Our public schools also need support from the rest of us, writes former Texas House speaker,” by Joe Straus, Monday Opinion.Thank you to former Texas House Speaker Joe Straus for his column on funding Texas public schools.
The unintended consequence will be dozens of “pop-up” private schools ready to accept public funding taken from another student with little oversight or accountability to the taxpayer footing the bill.Currently, schools are funded by local property taxes. This system has been widely criticized due to poorer areas receiving less funding, and therefore worse schooling, reinforcing their poverty. Policies like Robin Hood attempt to alleviate this issue, but the math doesn’t pan out.
If you think the property tax relief was a goodwill effort to help taxpayers, you need to ask your school district how it helped them. All of this is an effort to defund public education.
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