BryanS Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 For the first time, the Houston school district expects that it will have to pay several million dollars to the state under the controversial Robin Hood funding system.The oddity involving the state's largest district is prompting renewed calls for changes to Texas' complex school funding laws, which require property-wealthy districts to share money with poorer ones.Melinda Garrett, the Houston school district's chief financial officer, announced during a school board workshop Thursday that the district will owe an estimated $3.7 million to the state next year.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5600024.htmlWhat do you think of the Robin Hood plan? 3.7 million is about the annual operating budget of small-town (small 2A) school district. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 all this money and look at the results. children can't speak English. HISD suspected this would happen a few months ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 What do you think of the Robin Hood plan? 3.7 million is about the annual operating budget of small-town (small 2A) school district.Socialism 101 !!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiderman Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 For the first time, the Houston school district expects that it will have to pay several million dollars to the state under the controversial Robin Hood funding system.The oddity involving the state's largest district is prompting renewed calls for changes to Texas' complex school funding laws, which require property-wealthy districts to share money with poorer ones.Melinda Garrett, the Houston school district's chief financial officer, announced during a school board workshop Thursday that the district will owe an estimated $3.7 million to the state next year.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5600024.htmlWhat do you think of the Robin Hood plan? 3.7 million is about the annual operating budget of small-town (small 2A) school district.Could HISD lower its tax rate and avoid sending the $ to the state - or is it more complicated than that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheNiche Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 What do you think of the Robin Hood plan? 3.7 million is about the annual operating budget of small-town (small 2A) school district.I don't mind it that much. Education is one of the few programs that I wish would be more of a federal and less of a state/local thing. After all, labor is highly transient. Today's well-educated Oklahomans become tomorrow's productive Texans. The lesser among them become Texas' next generation of criminals.The same tendency is even greater within Texas, where better education for students in North Forest ISD benefits the economic vitality of the area contained by HISD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cottonmather0 Posted March 7, 2008 Share Posted March 7, 2008 YAWN. It's not as if I plan on my HISD taxes going towards my OWN kids' education someday when they're old enough for school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted March 8, 2008 Author Share Posted March 8, 2008 Could HISD lower its tax rate and avoid sending the $ to the state - or is it more complicated than that?I believe they can... and they should. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VicMan Posted March 15, 2008 Share Posted March 15, 2008 all this money and look at the results. children can't speak English. HISD suspected this would happen a few months ago. Hmm, I thought HISD had been in Robin Hood for awhile. This said HISD was in Robin Hood too: http://www.groupbuilder.net/client_files/A...release_num=865 - and that was in 2004 Richard Geib explains a lot of urban school issues here: http://www.rjgeib.com/biography/inner-city...s/innerblu.html - He taught at Berendo MS in LAUSD in the 1990s and documented it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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