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The Federal Government needs to stay out of the State of Texas School System. Washington will not get the opportunity to brainwash our children .

Governor Perry just did something to prevent that:)

Thank God for Rick Perry – we do not need the federal government and especially not this administration interfering in our state policies for any amount of money.

Rick Perry for Governor!!

Thats the problem, Perry is no differnt than all other who want our Tax dollars with out regulations, just give as the Tax dollars and we can spent it the way we want.. Perry talks about the need of our childern education. Every day we hear and read about our youths education falling behide all other countrys. WE need to really better the standars, for all America youths. There are some states who still use methons of teaching our America youths, they did 10 to 20 years ago. Ervey time we hear more Tax dollars its use for other things other than better Education of the youths of America.

Mr. Lopez: It’s exceedingly difficult to take someone’s argument about education (and funding thereof) seriously when the author can neither spell well nor employ good grammar and sentence structure in doing so.

Governor Perry was absolutely correct to refuse the miniature federal “carrot” that would have been accompanied by a very large federal “stick” to interfere in an area that is constitutionally reserved to the individual states.

As stated by Mr. Russell, “K-12 public education in Texas has a biennial budget of $80 billion, meaning that the maximum federal funds available to Texas would comprise LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of the biennial education budget. Further, the purchase of new textbooks aligned with a uniform national standard for the nearly 5 million public school students in Texas would no doubt further reduce, if not completely exhaust the federal funds.”

The people are fully capable of determining the best course for public education in Texas; and most of us hope that the “course” laid out for our students will include effective English communication skills, basic math skills, logic, economics, an expectation of good manners, and an appreciation of the incredible wisdom displayed by our founding fathers in the creation of this nation.

Education is a partnership game between students, parents and teachers, akin to the legs on a three-legged stool. If one leg doesn’t support an expectation of hard work and achievement, the student will almost always fall flat on his or her backside.
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“Every time the government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.” Benjamin Constant, Cours de politique constitutionnelle (1818-20) [As true today (if not more so) than when first spoken almost 200 years ago.]

WHOEVER CONTROLS OUR EDUCATION SYSTEM, EVENTUALLY WILL CONTROL OUR COUNTRY.

With federal money these days comes strings to socialism and indoctrination. Our Department of Education, and our so-called “Safe School CZAR” have their agendas that conflict with the values of most Americans.

Do you doubt this? Take a little time and read “Indoctrination U” by David Horowitz. It’s only 133 pages plus plenty of footnotes to document the statements. Radicals have been taking over our
system for years. We have tenured professors who are convicted felons, and some like Bill Ayres that should have been convicted except for techinicalities. They are teaching our future teachers
that they must teach “social justice” i.e. socialism, K-College and more anti-American trash.

Texas is presently better off than most other states, but as our teachers and administrators retire, far too many of the replacements will have been indoctrinated.

After reading “Indoctrination U”, you might read “Freefall of the American University” by Jim Nelson Black. Alumni can help be notifying their college/university that they will not donate again until
they adopt and enforce the student and academic rights set out in “Indoctrination U”.

Perry wins my approval with this “No” to fed education money/controls

Should have been “help by” not help be.

Perry got that one right. Local control will improve our schools— then the parents are responsible. It is not a liberal or conservative question: Which would get better results? A bureacracy, or Mom and Dad?

Now, if Perry would just keep the heat on with a strong position on other states’ rights issues…. might wake up other states. ‘Cause somebody is going to have to explain to the Fed’s that Texas is not going to be footing the bill for the special favors recently awarded to Nebraska, Louisiana, Connecticut, Florida,………….

What part of “egual treatment under the law” do the liberals not understand? If this Obamination passes, I’m guessing that the unions (a.k.a. organized crime) will soon be marketing healthcare policies…the same plans they won via collective bargaining. Union-brokered plans would be exempted from a tax to be imposed on those individuals and companies who can afford something more than the cut-rate, rationed, government-mandated plan. What a racket! Since the union’s gold-plated “Cadillac” health plans would NOT be taxed by the feds until 2018, union marketers will have an 8-yr. competative advantage over all other private plans.

You can “bet the farm” that if the union’s backdoor deal with this corrupt administration does not prohibit the marketing of their plan to non-union workers, they will surely do so.

Do General Motors employees still get their health insurance free? Check it out.