Burnt Orange Report

Perry via DMN: April/May Session Likely

By Phillip Martin

From a brief Dallas Morning News article:

Gov. Rick Perry said he probably will call a special legislative session on school finance in April or May, just before a June 1 court deadline for action.

The Republican governor, who spoke with reporters at a campaign event for a legislative candidate Monday, said he probably won't place private school vouchers on the session agenda. That issue most likely would be addressed in the 2007 regular legislative session, he said.

We'll see if vouchers really stay off the table, or if that he's just trying to keep that off the radar screen for Republican priamries.

There's as many theories about when he'll call (and whay may happen in the special sessions) as there are days between now and the June 1 deadline. I could write 1,000 words about what I think will happen, but that'll just waste everyone's time. Whatever happens will happen when it happens (that's a fun sentence to write). In the mean time, we've got to help Donna Howard win her run-off election, be thankful that we have Rep. Hernandez finally filling the HD 143 seat, and continue to get out our Democratic message for how we should improve our public schools.