Because government assistance is a bad thing…
Eliminating the class size limit would eliminate up to 12,000 teacher jobs. But according to Florence Shapiro, it’s really about local control.
Education Week: Texas Battle Looms on Class-Size Limit
“It would give flexibility to superintendents. It strengthens local control and gives them the opportunity to save some dollars,” she said, noting that school officials could decide to keep some classes at 15 students and others at 22 or 25.
Well, she’s got to say something. It was her constituents that were up in arms about UT’s top ten percent rule since their kids couldn’t get into UT while poor minorities or kids from rural schools were. What do you think is going to happen when her constituents find out that their schools are going to be laying off teachers even though they moved into the neighborhood because of the it’s quality schools?
Not that I feel sorry in the least for her constituents. These are the same people who elected Perry and have cheered every time he points out that Texas is doing great because businesses and voters like our low tax rates. In the meantime, the amount of state funding for public schools has been decreasing. And Texas can’t even get help from the federal government because last time Perry used the money to fund other state services instead of education.
Yep, elections have consequences…
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