Doggett Amendment on Federal Education Money Repealed
Is this the part of the show where the kids say "Swiper no swiping!"?
Two years ago, $3.8 billion in federal education stimulus money was used by the Texas State Legislature to supplant planned education funding, freeing up $3.8 billion for use elsewhere in the Texas budget, eliminating the need to utilize Texas huge self-replenishing Rainy Day Fund, and creating a permanent and growing hole in education funding that will recur every biennium until school finance in Texas is actually fixed (for a good overview, see my March 16 editorial).
So when the federal government created a $10 billion education spending bill last summer, Texas Congressman
