Texas Races to the Top in Education

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PJ Media:

Bryan Preston

11/29/12

 

Texas is a very big, small-government state. No place on earth is perfect, but Texas does an amazing job of leaving the law-abiding alone while dealing with crime and, according to Forbes, has managed to keep its takers-to-makers ratio viable despite the graying of America at large. The trade-off for all this, according to what’s left of the Texas left, is that we’re not properly educating the next generation because we’re not spending enough per pupil in the classroom. When Gov. Rick Perry rejected President Obama’s “Race to the Top” game because it came with tricky federal strings, the Texas left derided him and mocked him. They insist that Texas under our dullard governor is falling behind.

 

Well. That idea has been shot down. Comparable big blue states spend more, but graduate fewer students, than Texas.

 

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The blue state model is a failure across the board. It doesn’t deal well with past promises made under threat from the unions, it fails to deal with the present reality of a weak economy and insane government spending, and it is now shown to be failing to keep up with the future as well. The blue state model is running out of money to steal from one batch and promise to hand out to another. But the arrogant blue staters keep exporting their poisons on us anyway.

 

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