Texas Shutting Down Education

Because of the immense hole that the Texas budget has fallen into with $27 billion dollars, school districts allover Texas are going to have to close down schools, lay off teachers, and find ways to cut down expenses on the schools that actually survive. As the article Neighborhoods, Schools, and Budgets by Richard Whittaker explains, parents and students are now forced to fight to keep their schools open. School principals are obligated to find ways to cut down expenses, which means cutting down classes and teachers and thus assigning more students per class.  This article should be very important to any Texan, these students will be the taxpayers of tomorrow and a good education will ensure that the whole nation has a secure future.