Two Dallas School Board Elections Unchallenged. For the first time since 1974, this May’s Dallas Independent School District election will be uncontested. Observers believe the crisis in state funding has scared away potential candidates, because who wants a job where you know you will have to fire tons of people?
DISD could lose $86 million to $150 million in state funding, under the latest estimates, as the state looks at significantly trimming education funding. Dallas trustees say they will have to make some tough decisions in the coming months that could cost hundreds of employees their jobs.
Trustee Edwin Flores said the budget situation likely didn’t inspire people to run.
“Nobody wants to be sitting at the table when we have to pull the trigger on the budget,” he said. “This budget deal is pretty overwhelming.”
Inmates Have Plenty of Bars. Everything that we have outside of prison is also available inside of prison. Case in point: a recent escape by an inmate from a Beaumont prison has cast new light on the number of cellphones in state and North Texas county jails. The phones are used to plan escape, keep drug operations running smoothly, and, you know, update Facebook.
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The budget crisis at both DISD and in Texas as a whole is also unnecessary. If wealthy Texans paid only 2/3 of the same effective state and local tax rate as the poor then the deficit would be gone!
The poor pay 12.2% of their income in state and local taxes. If the wealthy half of Texas even paid 8%, the deficit would be gone. DISD Board members could worry about more constructive decisions related to our schools.