(This week's Watson Wire emphasizes the need for real leadership on education here in Texas. Our future depends on it. - promoted by Katherine Haenschen)
I wrote some last week about a judge’s ruling that the way Texas finances schools and education is unconstitutional. But that word, “unconstitutional,” doesn’t really do it justice. The ruling was a sweeping condemnation of the way Texas has failed to invest in our schools and our future, even in violation of our history, our identity and, yes, our constitution. “The Court declares that the current school finance system violates ... the Texas Constitution," state District Judge John Dietz declared. He called the system "inefficient, inequitable and unsuitable," and he found that it "arbitrarily funds districts at different levels below the constitutionally required level.” He later called the school finance system “inadequate,” saying it doesn’t give schools the resources they need to achieve that constitutional standard of “a general diffusion of knowledge.” It’s hard to think of a way that the system could be much more broken. Maybe if someone were stealing something ... 
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