@JoshRMcDonald @ywshaikh @ivotedforbeer @ReallyDanWeiner @chris_hummer Here’s the thing: does the State of Texas have an overly-complex, unfair system to fund education? Yes. This is true for K-12 and for public universities. For being a public school, UT (and others I’m sure) are getting less and less each cycle.
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@JoshRMcDonald @ywshaikh @ivotedforbeer @ReallyDanWeiner @chris_hummer The state’s solution for this was tuition deregulation, which arguably has made higher education harder to access. At the same time, UT has to keep reducing the % of top HS graduates it accepts b/c it simply can’t admit the initial 10% basis.
@JoshRMcDonald @ywshaikh @ivotedforbeer @ReallyDanWeiner @chris_hummer Getting into arguments about the PUF that should be spread to more schools or not (or how to divide it—why 66% UT and 33% A&M? What about by attendance? Or by services provided to the state? Or school’s inability to raise funds some other ways?)…
@JoshRMcDonald @ywshaikh @ivotedforbeer @ReallyDanWeiner @chris_hummer All of this misses the huge macro issue that the State does not like to fund education to which it likely should given the role of education—K-12, vocations, community, major univ, etc—plays into today’s economy. PUF is but a small part of that conversation.