Texas Education Problems

The education conflict in Texas is a major factor of chaos. There is kids without college tuitions. The 2011 Texas Legislature chopped more than a billion dollars from higher education, dashing the dream of college for many Texas students. While scholarships disappeared, many campuses were forced to raise tuition costs, a deadly combination for families without the resources to make up the difference.

As the Senate member, I will shape the Texas higher education system to suit the 1955 Education Amendment to ensure that public schools are well standardized to provide the foundation of the higher education system is enhanced. I will surface all the technicalities concerning the choice of public schools by ensuring that all public schools conditions are standardized and that all the social amenities that make teachers choosy are provided in the required proportion for equal education in public schools.

To Get A Better School System by Gene B. Preuss explores the journey of educational reform of Texas through one hundred years of inequality, threats, and disagreements. However, the Supreme Court decision regarding Morath vs. Texas Taxpayers has highlighted that even in 2016, additional reforms are needed. Funding for public education is not a new issue and has been a pressing matter since the creation of the Texas educational system. Throughout the process of educational reform, Texans have mainly fought over public education funding in regards to bridging the gap between the portion of funding spent on urban areas and the portion spent on rural areas as well as the small earnings that teachers make. Yet, another area of concern, as pointed out in the article “Texas Supreme Court Upholds School Funding System”, is the Texas Legislature which severely limits the number of available avenues that the state can take when addressing the issue of funding. Together, the past issues of how to fund education and the inequalities that arose in spending, combined with the current issue

The Texas trust board of education has the responsibility of making the official educational lesson plans. Therefore, how can Texans trust the lesson plans that are not contradicting Mexican heritage with racist travesty; or if all cultural history that is brought on by official facts of Mexican American culture. The board of education trusties is commanding a lawsuit for the racial tactics and demand for a new book to be created. It is one to judge a person by their race, but another to publicize post factual information.

According to comparing table of Texas in education area with other states in US, I see that Texas was ranked in the low stage generally, excepting public school enrollment. Texas government invests a great number of money into public school in order to support Texas citizens’ tuition. The hierarchy of Texas will effect negatively to society, economy, and policy in the future. The proportion of people over twenty-five years old in the state having high school diplomas was ranked fiftieth in US. This number shows that the number of Texans having high school certification is very low leading to have a poor ability human resource to companies and government organizations in the future. Poor skills will not produce high quality productions or manage companies

11.13). When it comes to addressing the performance issues facing Texas schools, issues facing the poor, the reality of a water shortage, and problems relating to transportation, there is great reluctance among Texas Republicans when it comes to expanding the government’s role in improvements, as well as in raising the necessary funds through taxation. The Texas Politics Project (2017) explains that when it comes to the current state of Texas schools, supporters of a more fiscally conservative approach feel that such an approach “at least achieves average results with below-average spending” (p. 11.9). The current conservatism that defines the overall political approach in Texas may not be adequate in the long term. As we are seeing, changing demographics are substantially impacting the state of Texas and will likely lead to necessary changes throughout the state.

As the largest state by area in the continental U.S. as the second most populous, Texas has its significant share of public policy challenges with which to contend. And as the discussion hereafter will show, many of these challenges serve as a microcosm of the broader pubic policy issues facing the United States. The issues addressed here below help to provide a better understanding of the complexities of public policy maintenance in a large and diverse state.

The Texas Constitution guarantees an "efficient system of public free schools," but schools have recently found themselves unable to provide an adequate education to the more than 5 million students in Texas because of the many problems within the education policy in the state. Such issues involve school financing, lack of preparation for college, early childhood education, teacher quality, and school choice. Tough all of these conflicts pose a potential threat to the school system’s competence and effectiveness as well as to Texas’ economy, there are a broad number of possible adjustment and reforms that could be placed to improve the adequacy of Texas’ school system.

Education is one government program that is taking a major blow especially money-wise and image-wise. According to Texas on the Brink Texas is second in enrollment in primary and secondary schools, but Average Scholastic Assessment Test (SAT) Combined Scores shows forty-seventh place and Estimated Public High School Graduation Rate is placed at forty-fourth. Illegal immigrants can not be tracked in the system even when bills passed to correct this and have failed time and time again, but "Taxpayers, school districts and the state are entitled to know the number, some argue, because they bear the brunt of the costs." according to Dallas News. The taxpayers send their taxes to cover there only their children in services such as transportation and meals, but there are

I firmly believe that education should be a top priority for the state of Texas. It could possibly be the state’s priority, and the state’s government officials have faith in that high-stakes testing is the best way to enhance education. The high-stakes testing could give students skills in certain areas - such as working under pressure – but a 2016 report shows Texas is still ranked 41st overall in education ("Texas Earns a C-Minus on State Report Card”). There are proposed solutions already in the works, such as the aforementioned HB 133 that proposed to decrease the amount of exams, and also removes STAAR scores from teacher

I believe the single biggest challenge facing Texas teachers is poverty. Recent statistic from The Southern Education Foundation indicate 60% of student in Texas public schools live in poverty. Studies published by The National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, have found that socioeconomic status, not race, ethnicity, national origin, location of a school is the best predictor of whether a person will receive a college education.

The state is made up of different sectors all in existence and intertwined each other. The constitution serves many functions in the operations of the government and the life of the people governed. The document houses the rules of the land and the conditions governing the way the various sectors of the economy react and act in a mutual status. The constitution is the key to the viable existence of the people of Texas providing the fundamental rules and laws for the inception and operations of legal laws (Brown et al., 2014). Likewise, the constitution outlines the underlying breakdown of the way the individual powers and limits to the powers in place exist.

Texas’ government must work towards narrowing the income gap between the White and Hispanic populations, caused by the underwhelming socioeconomic status of many Latin American immigrants. This could be done by reforming the state’s educational system to better help Hispanics succeed. “…a lack of proactive efforts to address the unique needs of [Hispanics] in the educational system has untold implications for the future economic and social prosperity of the country…” (Saenz, et al,76) If Hispanics are to be the majority, the state should put more emphases on bi-lingual education. This will help reduce language barriers and make it easier for Spanish-speaking Hispanic children to succeed in the educational system. To combat statistics showing that a Hispanic student with poor socioeconomic status is heavily prone to taking drugs, committing crime, joining a gang, and going to prison, the state should invest in mentor programs. A 2008 study on the effects mentor programs have on Hispanic children showed that: “…having a mentor translated into positive academic outcomes, including greater expectancy of success, higher educational expectations, fewer absences, and a greater sense of school belonging.” (Saenz, et al, 80) These efforts will result in Hispanics having greater preparedness for higher education. The state would also benefit from investing in vocational

Funding in Texas is an economic issue that has a variety of applications for the state government. There are many pros and cons about Texas state government, how it is being funded, and how it is funding other government ran programs. The influences that funding has is an economic issue that affects Texas’ society as a whole through taxes, budgeting, and in policies through state, or local government.

The article points out several main problems the administration is facing. The first is the obvious low funding due to the insufficient attention given to ESL learning as part of the public school education. “Ms. DeJesus, of the teachers’ union, said...almost every city school needed to hire one or two teachers, which would put the numbers required in the “thousands.” And the new rules came with very little in the way of resources — $1 million for the entire state, which has left schools scrambling.”