"School officials said she was cheating, getting a quality education for her daughters without paying the right taxes to fund it."
Please understand that it is a crime for a parent to want a "quality education" for their children. You stay classy Ohio. Check out the video on Yahoo! for more on this matter.
I love Texas! I love it so much that I am willing to put up with King Perry but that patience is deteriorating fast.
A clear example of how Perry is hurtful to Texans but in particular Hispanics regardless of political affiliation is to observe how his policies affect Texas.
The Houston Chronicle reports:
“If the American Dream is upward economic mobility and arrival in the middle class, the grim statistics show only a small percentage of Texas’ Hispanics are on the road to success.
I was disappointed when I stumbled into the article “UT Dumps National Merit Program” by Gary Scharrer that reports that my alma mater, The University of Texas at Austin will “stop giving scholarships to some of their best and brightest students” due to “economic pressures.”
The program costs the university about $4.4 million a year and honors about $13,000 per student who maintain at least a 3.25 GPA.
Ralph K.M. Haurwitz of the Austin American-Statesman has an interesting article in today’s edition regarding Hispanics and higher education. Haurwitz sheds light on a state education goal established in 2000 that seems to be unattainable as we approach the deadline in 2015.
Haurwitz notes:
My commentary on last night’s speech is neither needed nor relevant but that does not mean that the words spoken by the erudite … eloquent … Barack Obama should be forgotten. Here are some of my favorite quotes from last night’s Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery Address to Joint Session of Congress.
“We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will emerge stronger than before."
My friend Cody Talley brought up a great article in our radio show about the “Top Ten Literate Cities” in the United States. He then went the extra mile to compare that list against the most current list of Liberal and Conservative cities.
What makes a city “literate” though?
The 2008 study of “America’s Most Literate Cities" was conducted by the Center for Public Policy and Social Research at Central Connecticut State University and looked at cities with populations over 250,000.
Rankings were determined “based on local newspaper and magazine circulation, library data, online news readership, book purchases and resources, and educational attainment,” according to LiveScience.
There are two Americas according to Chris Hedge. And … NO, it is not the Haves and the Have Nots that he is talking about. Hedge claims, "One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth."
With the economy in the dumps and everything in sight seeming to be overpriced or at least that is what it seems like, gas hits the $4 dollar mark officially today. This comes the day after Associated Press reports that unemployment rate has reached 1986 levels. There are more people with no jobs and many more with underpaid positions who can not afford the $4 per gallon gas to get them to their low paying jobs.
