Comments | tams_alumni: TAMS funding cut again?!

silverkilroy in tams_alumni

TAMS funding cut again?!

Feb 13, 2007 12:41

This apparently went out on the alumni mailing list earlier ( Read more... )

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unlimitedfuture February 14 2007, 10:24:00 UTC

I think the latter would outweigh the former. We do extremely well on standardized tests, but 200 not graduating out of over 30,000 is not such a large percentage that it would hurt their standings. However, I would hope that the people conducting those assessments would create some kind of exemption for TAMS so that it wouldn't hurt the university.

phearmymaddan February 14 2007, 03:15:09 UTC

Saw this on the email list earlier and forwarded it on to my family back in Texas. I doubt any of them will actually write their legislators or anything, but that's probably all I can do from up here :\

Oh BTW.. Hi! :)

palestephie February 14 2007, 08:04:08 UTC

Further evidence that Rick Perry is the worst Governor in recent history.

He's been reducing funding on everything, and increasing revenue at every turn (between small business tax, selling tracts of state parks, privately funding the Trans-Texas Corridor, etc), where is all the money going?

cantordust February 15 2007, 00:24:21 UTC

My dad's down in Austin representing community colleges (he's an administrator). I pointed the TAMS thing out to him, and it may give him an extra point since I know that community colleges have LOUSY graduation rates. Most of their students aren't even aiming at degrees anyway.

This whole scheme looks like it was designed for the sole benefit of UT and maybe A&M. bleah.

silverkilroy February 15 2007, 07:40:30 UTC

Actually, looked more like it was aimed at those new schools. But I wouldn't be surprised to see that sort of funding go to some other hair-brained project here or at UT.

myspicybrains February 15 2007, 17:27:58 UTC

Is it just me, or was anyone else surprised to find that TAMS funding is lumped in with university funding instead of high school funding? I mean, I always assumed the state didn't create the program for UNT, but rather as a belated "I'm sorry" to all of the kids in bass-ackwards public schools who couldn't manage to find an academic challenge even after skipping two grades of junior high. If that $2.8 million isn't going to TAMS, it had better damn well make its way to creating gifted programs in the smallest, poorest schools in the state, not to building a new gym at some UT/A&M - Podunkville campus. Most people at least have a choice about their college education.