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Texas just passed a law that gives extra funding to public schools that teach the Bible.
Checked my Texas municipal property taxes recently. We've dropped ISD funding by 30% over five years. Meanwhile, city police spending has surged by 25%.
So I'm paying slightly less than I did five years ago, but over $1k/year of that has simply been a transfer from teachers to cops.
Are you comparing raw dollars or percentage of property tax? Accounting for inflation and the increase of your property value? What about the whole situation where Texas collects the taxes but only disburses up to some amount to schools. Probably easier to just look at the ISD financials. Just need to remove all expenses for non education activities, like sports and administration. I wonder if the ISD funding also gets used to pay for ISD specific police. Just asking questions, without actually doing the work, betting teachers have lost way more than 30% in 5 years. Texas government is actively trying to prove that public education doesn't work so they can justify privatization, and bring back legal segregation plus religious schooling funded by taxes.
Raw dollars. I paid $2980 to HISD in 2019 and $2035 to HISD in 2024. Incidentally, my housing price has increased 20% over this same time.
Yup
They urgently need russian orthodox popes on payroll
Does it specify which bible?
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Everyone once in while they pop up with a hella funny way to protect human rights. It's great
Meanwhile, in my country, laicism is mandatory for public schools.