TX-EDUCATION BUDGET CUTS TO IGNORE COST OF ILLEGALS
Article concerning Education Budget Cuts in TEXAS and not one word about the BILLIONS wasted on ILLEGALS and their Anchors!
Send the ILLEGALS along with their anchors back to their home countries and the resulting savings including the teachers and free lunch and breakfast that cater to the ILLEGALS and anchors would most likely cancel out any budget cuts. Consider the resulting side benefit with the decrease in health cost when the ILLEGALS and their anchors do not continue to utilize the Hospital ERs as their primary physicians without one thought of paying.
Furloughs, pay cuts for teachers urged as option
Under law, layoffs are now the only way to deal with funding shortfalls
By PEGGY FIKAC
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Jan. 30, 2011, 10:45PM
AUSTIN — School districts should be allowed to give teachers unpaid furloughs and cut their salaries to help deal with a funding shortfall that one estimate says could cost 100,000 jobs, a leading state senator says. State Senate Education Committee Chairman Florence Shapiro, R-Plano, said the layoff projection could be whittled if school districts could take less drastic steps, an area she said loosening state restrictions could help temper the effects of a budget shortfall.
Under starting-point state budget proposals filed by legislative leaders, school districts would get $9.3 billion to $9.8 billion less through the next two years than under current funding formulas to cover enrollment increases and a projected drop in local revenue due to lower property values.
One expert has estimated the higher figure could cost up to 100,000 school district jobs in Texas through the next two years.
“One of those burdens that we have placed on our school districts is that they cannot decrease your salary. They can’t have furlough days. It’s not allowed in the law. The only option is to fire,â€