Ok, what am I supposed to see from this article that is negative about Texas or Perry?
Teacher Salaries By State | Average Salaries For Teachers | Beginning Salaries For Teachers | Teacher Raises | TeacherPortal.com
Notice the last column. Salary comfort index. Notice Texas is no. 14. When you take in cost of living factors instead of raw salary, our Teachers are doing pretty good on average.
Try using
Cost of Living comparison calculator or similar. Note that for the $48,638 average for Texas teachers would have to be $63,301 to meet similar costs if they were in California. Cali teachers do get a bit more, true, but after cost of living is taken in, not much at all.
Also, if we are spending so little per classroom but ranking 14 in overall education, seems to me other states should be looking at what we are doing because we appear to be getting quite a bit more efficiency for our money. Also, as I mentioned before, if you get rid of a lot of the Administrative positions/overhead, that would allow more to get to the teachers and classrooms, but then again, the districts control that, not the state.
WSJ lauds Texas economy, marked by jobs (including a lot of low-paying ones) | The American Independent
This an article linked to in yours. While yours nit-picks what it can to make things look bad. Look at the averages for the states with similar demographics, Cali and NY.
Average Salary in
Texas $41,000
Cali $48,000
New York $47,000
Now adjust for cost of living, again
Cost of Living comparison calculator
Comparing LA, NYC to Dallas
That $48,000 in Cali is equivalent to making only $36,881 in Texas
That $47,000 in NY is equivalent to making only $26456 in Texas.
Also, keep in mind, Texas allows some jobs, those who take tips, to be paid less than minimum wage. I do not know if NY, or Cali does.
For education rankings, I gave you the link. For how the State does business, if you are not even aware or know how the different function in the state work, how the hell can you be bitching about Perry, when you don't even know what he can and cannot do or what he can or cannot affect. Further, law is passed by the state Congress not Perry alone.
On average, it appears that Texas has done pretty damned good in most areas, can some be improved, sure.
P.S. If you hate Texas and Perry so much, get on I-30 and head west. It turns into I-20 west of Fort Worth and merges with I-10 just east of Van Horn. Once on I-10, keep heading west until Cali, try living there for awhile and see how it is. In other words, it's a free country, no one says you have to live in Texas, so if you hate it so much, then get the **** out.