New fears form over Robin Hood's elimination
The Robin Hood system, introduced in 1993, takes a portion of funds from property-rich districts and distributes them to schools in less wealthy districts. According to the Texas Education Agency, 90 percent of the students in the state benefit from the current system.As well as scrapping the system by 2005, Grusendorf's bill hands out about $300 per student to all school districts for the 2004-05 biennium.
Sandra Reed, superintendent at Sharyland ISD, said she was extremely concerned about the state ditching the principle of equalized funding.
"Scrapping Robin Hood would be devastating to the Valley districts," Reed said.
"Sharyland, for example, is a growing district; we grew by 600 students, or 10 percent last year and we expect the same this year. We?re opening a new school. How do I buy library books, computers and hire a full staff if the formulas are not there?"
Why do people continue to believe we can rely on the state to fund the vast majority of K-12 education in this country? Why do they believe that the government has the right to determine what's "adequate" or "sufficient" for a school district to operate on? Why do they think they can get away with trying to steal their cake and eat it too?
UPDATE(4/9/2004 12:52pm)
Oppose all state income tax plans!
UPDATE(4/28/2004 9:26am)
The proposed solutions for Texas school financing aren't any better.
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