Interesting read on Rick Perry

[sanfran22]

There it is right there, I just wasn't gonna say it cause then I would be labeled a racist! I imagine the all the minimum wage jobs are because Texas is the second biggest state, (area not population wise) which means we have more fast food, more lower end jobs & of course we'd have more people without medical insurance.

I've been labeled that a thousand times by a few on here. No big deal because they are uneducated and ignorant. Typical ploy from the left. When you can't hold your own in a debate, just yell racism. It kinda makes sense when you think about it a bit instead of always pulling the race card..

[pghin08]

I'm not really trying to defend perry as much as I am about the info being put out there. I don't care who would be in office. Point is, the article doesn't tell the whole story IMO. If a democratic state had the same stats I'd do the same. Conversly California has been pretty bad with some of the same issues. They've had a "repub" gov for a few years.

California's unreal backwards-ness came long before The Terminator.

[sanfran22]

California's unreal backwards-ness came long before The Terminator.

It did for sure. They even put the clown back in that did alot of damage. But Ahhhnold didn't do anything to help.

[texansrangerfan73]

Typical ploy from the left. When you can't hold your own in a debate, just yell racism. It kinda makes sense when you think about it a bit instead of always pulling the race card

This is so very true & if we like guns & our constitution then we are labeled right-wing extremists. But if we aren't allowed to defend ourselves from a tyrannical Ferderal Government then who would do it, certainly not their own stormtroopers!!

[tutall]

How are you going to get better tools to learn? Hope that someone donates it?

Im not sure you quite realize the amount of waste in a school corp... Look into the number sometime on what percent of school funding goes to each kid and it is somewhat amazing.... Cut the extras and leave the funding for the kids... there is a reason a lot of school board members stay busy meeting with sales people all day.

[andrewhoya]

Im not sure you quite realize the amount of waste in a school corp... Look into the number sometime on what percent of school funding goes to each kid and it is somewhat amazing.... Cut the extras and leave the funding for the kids... there is a reason a lot of school board members stay busy meeting with sales people all day.

I'm not sure what you mean by "goes to each kid".

[tutall]

what percentage of the money that is spent on education is spent on the kids and how much is spent on administration costs etc....

[andrewhoya]

what percentage of the money that is spent on education is spent on the kids and how much is spent on administration costs etc....

That's what I assumed, but wanted to confirm.

That percentage varies from county to county in every state.

In the county I live in, the 2011 education budget was $ 462,831,170, and $2,088,360 goes to Student Expenditures. This number does not include the tools used for learning, such as Promethean Boards, Computers, textbooks, and other various methods of learning. After all of the "tools" and other daily expenses towards the kids, the county spends 13% on the kids. The other 87% goes towards costs such as land, salaries, heating, cooling, water, maintenance, bus supplies (busses, gas, etc), etc.