Reply #1: Yes our school finance system is idiotic

[sonias]

And now unconstitutional as well! I don't expect that we'll get a better version from the repuke controlled legislature either. They've already gone at it for 5 special sessions and two regular sessions. They've pretty much boxed themselves in, since they won't even consider and income tax and they just can't bring themselves to tax more businesses. The Texas Supreme Court is also 100% repbublican. The supreme court didn't feel that our schools needed any more money. Their only problem with the current system was the cap on property taxes imposed by the legislature, a de-facto statewide property tax which is prohibited by the state constitution. They could care less about educating the kids, they just don't want a statewide property tax.

Sonia