"A new poll from the University of Texas' Government Department and the Texas Politics project finds Texans are underwhelmed by their public schools.
The pollsters asked what Texans thought of the "quality of K-12 public school education." Result? 49 percent said "not very good" or "terrible," 44 percent said "good" or "excellent," and -- remarkably -- 5% didn't know.
Since 1997, public school spending has risen more than 50 percent, and SAT scores have dropped. And for some reason people are upset...
So the solution is more funding, right?
Wrong.
Mr. and Mrs. Texas overwhelmingly rejected the "increase funding" option and instead said there needs to be a lot more accountability."
Mr. Sullivan and his group continue to keep us informed on the issues.
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great now they can form board of accountability, of course it will need to be funded. and I'm sure it would need to be made up of retired school professionals and they will have to have meetings, catered meetings, workshops, trips to Austin for traing, etc,etc..... I say shut em down!
I thought we were the accountability board.
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