Yesterday I travelled with a group of superintendents, board members, and others to the capitol to visit with state representative Bryan Hughes and state senator Kevin Eltife. We made this trip to attempt to provide these representatives with useful data and concerns to help them with their decision making process as they work to create a budget with the state having a $27 billion deficit. They have a difficult task ahead of them, and I hope and pray that they are able to keep the future of our great state in mind as they tackle these issues.
One of the items that struck me as surprising was the fact that some members of the House are reluctant to tap the Rainy Day Fund. Isn't a downturn in the economy the reason this fund was set up in the first place? That's how you run a business isn't it? When times are lean you have to cut the fat and use the reserves to get you through until the turnaround. Well, guess what...the lean time is here.
What was that? Do you feel rain? Texas, it's raining...It's time to use the Rainy Day Fund. We cannot allow public education to fail. The results are too costly to our state in the long run.
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