Children Still Low On Texas List Of Priorities

If Texas children were important to elected officials, they would have arrived at a rational and swift resolution to financing public education and improving learning outcomes.

There would NOT have been a decade-long inertia on the issue!

Several years ago Gov. Rick Perry ordered cutting social services and health care for children because the state was trying to balance the budget. If you recall, Perry had the audacity and questionable leadership to send legislators an outline of a budget that included nothing but zeros in the dollars column.

Meanwhile, under public pressure and during the last election year, Perry finally reinstated some of the dollars previously taken away from these children