Houston - Need Opinions Please

[Drjones]

The education system in TX has been taking budget hits and the state is currently being sued by many school districts over the way the state handles funding.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/12/texas-schools-sue-state-s_n_1006353.html
It seems to me the quality of education varies.  My Nephew just moved to a suburb of Austin and thinks his kids school is great.  The local schools in my area rate low on HS Graduation rates.  If you have kids it is something to investigate before you settle into a community.   

Not so much the spending as the data shows:




but on what the money is being spent on. i.e. several districts have blown multi millions on football/basketball/concert hall facilities.  Then there is the nationwide problem of interjecting polytiks about what to teach instead of using a sane brain and teaching what actually needs to be taught. i.e. the three R's versus ensuring the curiculum is polytikedly correct.