It is sad that we have a Republican Party that allows the dissemination of misinformation in order to effect draconian cuts on the Texas education budget. This is generally done to convince Texans that the budget cuts are there to cut waste and not actual education. Given the information below it is a categorical lie.

These Republicans do not care that they will have a material negative effect on Texas children. Moreover they do not care that after all the blood from the education slaughter is actually seen by Texans, that they are likely to be summarily removed from office.

They know that the the transfer of wealth they have effected on Texans will ensure that their benefactors will have a job waiting for them. The immorality of Republican politics in Texas will have a seismic effect on Texas and ultimately the Republican Party itself.

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TASBO: The Final Word (A great communication handout)

By Tom Canby – TASBO
Mar 28, 2011, 08:40
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Tom Canby Bio. – On the topic of the percent of teachers in the public education system, the chart below was prepared from the Texas Education Agency Snapshot publications for school years 1994-1995 through 2009-1010.  Also, for school year 1985-86, the percent of teachers was 50.7% according to Table 79, in the Digest of Educational Statistics 1990, published by National Center Educational Statistics.  TASBO is concerned about misinformation published on this topic that reported there had been a significant shift downward in the percent of teachers in the 1970’s and 1980’s.  Specifically TASBO is concerned about misinformation in reports that teaching staff to non-teaching staff shifted from 5:1 to 1:1, which is incorrect because staff counts reported to TEA in the 1970’s and early 1980’s prior to PEIMS did not include all staff.   The Snapshot data and NCES data clearly show no shift has happened involving nonteaching staff over the last two and a half decades.

The chart prepared below by Moak, Casey & Associates provides additional information on the topic of staffing in public schools.  Mandates, changing student demographics and reporting requirements have contributed to the percentage increase in professional support staff.  According to TEA, “ Support staff are defined as therapists, psychologists, counselors, diagnosticians, physicians and nurses, librarians, department heads, and miscellaneous other support roles. This category does not include secretaries.”  Many of the support staff work directly with students during the school day. Instructional aides work directly with students alongside teachers and also show an increase over this time period.

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