Yeah reading the articles you posted it’s clear that any amount of public spending is too much for OpenTheBooks. Especially how they point out how much of the s

Yeah reading the articles you posted it’s clear that any amount of public spending is too much for OpenTheBooks. Especially how they point out how much of the school budgets goes to labor costs (labor costs are the largest cost of nearly every organization and business) and how many employees in Dallas ISD and Houston ISD make >$100,000 a year (DISD employees ~22,000 people and HISD ~30,000. Both serve hundreds of thousands of students. So they are just complaining about big numbers. Also DISD already implements the “performance based” pay they suggest. I despise such a system, but the promise is that “if your one of the best teachers, you can actually make $100,000 a year”). Edit: Also the Teacher Retirement System is basically a massive investment firm. The more money it makes for the teacher pension, the less the public has to kick in to make up for any pension shortfalls. You would presumably want to hire the best of the best. Now if that actually happens is debatable, but you absolutely would not want to cut those salaries to the bone.