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    TX-EDUCATION CUTS LOOMS-JUST CUT BILINGUAL for ILLEGALS?

    House Republican Caucus leader Larry Taylor why does Texas attempt to educate the ILLEGALS and their anchors! Texas has a bilingual program for just Spanish speakers only costing Billions of dollars once it began to pick up steam. The ILLEGALS and their anchors in the Texas School System are so illiterate that our schools have to spend time and resources to teach the ILLEGALS and anchors "proper" Spanish before they can even consider teaching the ILLEGALS and anchors English! The ILLEGALS and anchors have their own program starting in pre-kindergarten through the 5th grade, seven years, and most do not or do not want to learn English. But the Feds and Texas continue to flood the school system with our money. Don't be concerned, the ILLEGALS do not have any intention of learning English! They want to take over the U.S. for their Third World home countries or at the very least turn the U.S. into just another Third World Country so they may feel more at home!

    "Teachers" in the Texas ILLEGALS (bilingual) pre-kindergarten - 5th grade program receive several thousand dollars per year more than the real TEACHERS who work with the "NON-ILLEGALS"!!!!

    The State of Texas claims they pay bilingual teachers extra because they are hard to find and have additional credentials. Most have less educational credentials than real teachers, many do not have educational degrees or for that fact most do not have advanced degrees that are required for real teachers. The only additional credentials are the ability to converse in Spanish. United States elementary students should not be required to learn in Spanish, the reason for the "bilingual program (ILLEGAL program)" is that we are forced to "educate" the ILLEGALS and their Anchors!

    Deficit looms, but candidates remain silent
    Texas schools, social services likely to face cuts
    By GARY SCHARRER
    AUSTIN BUREAU
    Oct. 29, 2010, 9:00PM

    AUSTIN — Cutting through a projected state budget shortfall of roughly $20 billion could make for ugly debate in a few months when lawmakers get down to the nitty-gritty of slashing funding.

    Making those kinds of cuts as state leaders promise to do without raising taxes means public education and health and human services will end up on the chopping block, experts said. Those two areas consume about 90 percent of the state's general revenue.

    State budget writers could close prisons, eliminate the Department of Public Safety, scrap economic development and environmental protection, board up several other state agencies and still not reach enough savings to avoid cutting education and human services, said Eva DeLuna Castro, a budget expert at the Center of Public Policy Priorities.

    The warnings and predictions from DeLuna Castro, legislators and others are dire: Texans should brace for high school algebra classes with at least 40 students; state hospitals could be closed; school teachers will lose jobs; programs targeting Texans with schizophrenia, severe bipolar disorder and severe depression will get downsized.

    Candidates running for election Tuesday, however, have steered clear of details about the cuts for obvious reasons, they said. No one wants to talk up taxes or campaign to starve public education.

    Estimates of the state's projected two-year budget shortfall started around $11 billion but keep edging upward. The latest estimates put it as high as $25 billion. The only estimate that counts will come from Comptroller Susan Combs when she delivers the official revenue projections in January.

    Rep. Garnet Coleman, D-Houston, says the projected shortfall is exaggerated.

    "The rhetoric out there is being used to set up a circumstance for unnecessary cuts," he said.

    Education cash at risk
    House Republican Caucus leader Larry Taylor, of Friendswood, said he already has told school superintendents in his district not to expect additional money the next two years.

    "I think public education, just like everybody else, can look for innovation and find efficiencies. There are a lot of technology advances that they can use for education to save money just like industry has had to do," Taylor said. "I think we can get a better product with less money in some cases."


    It typically takes an additional $1.5 billion to educate the estimated 170,000 students that are added to the public school enrollment every two years.

    The Legislature's focus on budget cuts, including education, coincides with a campaign by Texas school boards to make education a priority. About 200 school boards already have passed the "make education a priority" resolution and more are joining each month.

    Bobby Rigues, vice president of the Aledo ISD board of trustees and one of the campaign leaders, worries that issues such as redistricting will trump education.

    "We are being told the issues of priority will be to balance the budget and to address redistricting - time will not allow the priority needed to address the broken system of school finance," Rigues said.

    "A good question to ask is, 'When did redistricting become more important than education?' Ask any member of any community which is more important and you will have to look long and hard to find an answer outside of the word, 'education.' "

    Personnel make up roughly 80 percent of a school district's cost. School boards will be forced to cut staff and programs and/or raise property taxes, said Jackie Lain, an associate executive director for the Texas Association of School Boards.

    "Teachers will lose jobs, students will lose educational opportunities, and our state will lose ground in its long-term economic competitiveness," she said.

    2006 tax cut slammed
    School board leaders across Texas are frustrated, she said, because students will be paying the price of the Legislature's 2006 decision to cut property taxes without raising enough cash to pay for the plan.

    "Legislators now are telling school districts to expect to receive approximately $6 billion less from the state next year and the next," Lain said. "To paraphrase a recent commercial, even children know that it is wrong to buy something if you know that you won't have the money to pay for it."

    Former Texas Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn warned state leaders in 2006 that the school property tax reform bill would produce a multibillion-dollar structural deficit. She called the plan "the largest hot check in Texas history," and warned it would create a $23 billion shortfall over five years.

    Gov. Rick Perry dismissed the warning, saying school property tax cuts would ignite economic activity.

    Richard Kouri, of the Texas State Teachers Association, said he is "surprised that there hasn't been more demand that candidates talk about the fact that we are going to have a budget deficit. Whether it's $18 billion or $21 billion or $25 billion, it is the most significant issue that they are going to deal with next session."

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    We face the same thing here in Ca. Before I got active in politics and different issues, when the started the bilingual education and when it started becoming hard to get a job unless you were bilingual, i thought there was nothing I could do about it. I just accepted the laws they passed. Canadians would come down to the Palm Springs area, where I lived and would ask if they were still in the US. Now I feel that it is because of people like me, that they have gotten away with so much.

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