Houston Chronicle
Editorial Board
January 6, 2012
The state of Texas is facing multiple lawsuits over school finance as it heads into the New Year.
It's not as if the litigation was totally unexpected.
School district administrators from across the state were in Austin last legislative session begging the Legislature to address the woefully inadequate public school finance situation.
Not only did state lawmakers fail to address the problems, they cut $5.3 billion from public education and failed to provide additional funding for the 80,000 new students who are added to the school rolls each year.
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