School Districts Start Cracking Down

School Districts are tightening their belts across the nation as budgets get cut and expenses continue to rise. Dallas ISD is looking at more layoffs after a continuing cycle of layoff and rehire.  Fort Worth ISD is also looking at cuts to reduce cost. In Akron, Ohio Kelley Williams-Bolar, 40, was jailed for sending her two children to a better districts school.  She and her two children live in housing projects. in Akron, Ohio and only wanted a safe and better education for her kids. For the past two years she drove them to nearby Copley-Fairlawn district school, where her father lived.



Is this wrong? Well yes. Can you fault her? NO.  In Texas we had a plan called "Robin Hood Plan"  enacted in 1993. Based on the the tales of "Robin Hood"  Texas Educational Agency rated districts based on property valuation per student and sought to balance the tables of  the poor districts. TEA would  limit the school districts’ wealth and redistributing the excess money recovered from high-wealth districts, the state provides funding to school districts in inverse relation to their wealth. School districts with higher property wealth receive less state funding than low-wealth districts. State aid substantially equalizes overall school funding. Thus it was stealing (limiting) from the rich to help the poor.

Parents when seeking a place raise their children will always look at the school system.  For some it is not a choice as in the Ohio case.  In Dallas/Forth Worth ISD system there are schools with  10-15 students per teacher where others have 30 plus students per teacher ratio.  Some schools do not have enough desks for a student to sit at during class and teachers are told to have them sit on the floor.  In other scenario's the students are lacking the essentials such as books.  If there is true balance why are do these problems still exist? In several states we also have hundreds of thousand illegal aliens (hate those words, like they are space creatures) attending schools and getting medical needs all for free.  Who is paying these cost?  You and me I think!  So now how wrong is the parent in Ohio now?