Everything you said is true except the last part has an omission. The state helps fund local school districts, and has been doing several things to reduce that

Everything you said is true except the last part has an omission. The state helps fund local school districts, and has been doing several things to reduce that amount every session ever since White was governor if my memory serves. For just one example there was an expose in the Houston Chronicle how the Texas Education Agency imposed a set percent limit on special education students so no matter what, if a school reported a percentage above that, the school was penalized heavily so school adminstrators played the game, and never found more special ed students than the TEA limit. The budgetary reason for this is special ed students cost a lot more per student. There was a public radio expose but the story was in print first. http://www.houstonchronicle.com/denied/ http://www.houstonchronicle.com/denied/