[CSPS] Fwd: textbooks

[Sarah Bednarz]

This comes from a listserv I am on of social studies supervisors in  
North Texas. Anyone know the impact in CSISD? Thanks, Sarah

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Nancy Bray" <brayn at lisd.net>
>
>
> FYI:
>
> As you may have heard, Gov. Perry ordered the release of the  
> textbooks that the State had been holding up on.  He also ordered  
> the Commissioner to enact a variety of new rules including how  
> districts were to allocate their state and local funds.  All of  
> these were things that the legislature had failed to pass.
>
> The textbooks are to be paid for from the Foundation School Funds  
> that districts were to receive for operational purposes. Each  
> district's per capita funding is being reduced by his action. For  
> Lewisville ISD, that translates into a loss of over $3,000,000.   
> That doesn't sound like the textbooks are provided by the state to  
> me.  It sounds like we are having to buy our own.
>
> On the other hand, Gov. Perry can go all across the state bragging  
> that he, without the legislature, single-handedly provided textbooks.
>
>                      Nancy Bray   brayn at lisd.net
>             972.539.1551    972.355.6287 (fax)
>        Social Studies Supervisor, Lewisville ISD
> 1800 Timbercreek Rd., Flower Mound, TX  75028

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Sarah Witham Bednarz
Associate Professor of Geography
Department of Geography
Texas A&M University
College Station, Texas 77843-3147
s-bednarz at tamu.edu
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