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“We just keep throwing more and more money at our public schools, and it doesn’t do any good.” I often hear folks expressing this sentiment, and it makes me wonder – how do we know how much it should cost to educate a child? #txed
I’m an early childhood literacy advocate in Texas. Our per-student funding for public school students is about $10,000 per year. New York invests the most in their students, over $20,000/yr, and there are a handful of states lower than Texas. the74million.org/the-states-tha…
If you read the article linked in the previous tweet, you saw that students in states with more generous education funding achieve better results. So, is $20,000 per year outlandish, or could that actually be how much it costs to provide an adequate education?
I see my dude @christackettnow is looking at campaign finance in the Lt Gov race. I've been looking at the Attorney General stuff. Mute this thread if you don't care :) #txlege
AG Ken Paxton had a big campaign haul, again, this cycle: $2.5m. (I'm sure @christackettnow will do his analysis of Paxton vs. Kim Olson on # and average size of donors.) But a couple of things stood out to me in Paxton's filing. #txlege ...
First, major donors to Empower Texans & related PACs make up about 17% of Paxton's fundraising this filing. Kyle Stallings, Windi Grimes, Dick Saulsbury, the Sparkses, Wallace Hall, and Kathaleen Wall all gave. But there were 2 massive Empower-world donors there, too... #txlege
