Despite budget cuts in education, $60 million high school football stadium opens - Portland K-12 | Examiner.com
Even as Texas lawmakers were forced to cut the state's education budget by $4 billion, Eagle Stadium's construction continued. By this past 2011-12 school year, Allen High School was facing a $4.5 million budget shortfall; the school was forced to cut 44 teaching positions and 40 support positions.
Still, in a time when school districts are almost completely buried with money concerns, people around the country are questioning whether or not Allen, Texas is sending the right message to its children - voting to build a $60 million high school football stadium while school employees lose their jobs and classroom sizes grow
Texas really has its priorities in order
How horrid. You'd better move there, then you can become a voter. Otherwise, shut the fuck up.
Maybe they can give all those fired teachers discount tickets to next weeks football game
Once again highlighting the priorities of the Texas educational system
Please link a study that shows how increasing the number of teachers, administrators, and support staff improves education results. Show us all how the big push for smaller class size by the NEA over the past 40 years has resulted in higher test scores. I'd love to see that study. Everything I've read shows that smaller class size had no effect on student achievement.