A question for tonight’s Democratic gubernatorial debate
Here’s what I want to hear more about tonight in the Democratic gubernatorial debate: Bill White, the former Houston mayor who is the frontrunner, says that he wants to “take aggressive action against...
View ArticleBill White and tuition rates
I noticed in today’s paper that Bill White was down in the Rio Grande Valley talking about Rick Perry’s failures. Among other things, the Democratic gubernatorial hopeful criticized Gov. Perry for...
View ArticlePerry, White on the state’s school funding shortfall
As the year began, I noted that we were going to concentrate on school funding issues as one of the priorities of this blog for 2010. With that in mind, I asked Gov. Rick Perry and Democratic...
View ArticleThe latest from Perry and White on education
Texas’ gubernatorial candidates have weighed in on education issues the last few days. Let’s look first at Gov. Rick Perry’s most recent proposal. Perry proposed yesterday that businesses be given a...
View ArticleHow would Perry and White get more Texans to graduate from college?
The story that broke last week about the U.S. trailing other nations in college graduation rates may seem like one of those pieces you’ve read before. After all, the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman...
View ArticleBill White on preparing Texas
On the Morning News’ Opinion blog yesterday, I posted an entry about Bill White’s closing lines in the gubernatorial campaign. You can read more here about what I said about his theme that we need...
View ArticleEducation and Texas’ governor’s race
Over the last few months, we’ve talked here about education and Texas’ governor’s race. Here’s a good overview of the issue by Terry Stutz, a Dallas Morning News writer and regular Education Front...
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