Remember those heady seconds when Amurkan believed that there was some fleeting truth to the 1600 Crew pronouncements on eduma-cashun? That in the great state of Tex-ass there had been unparalled successes in elevating the standards of edumacashun to stratospheric levels. Then the truth came out; book-cooking that would have made the Accountant of Enron green with envy and a cabinet-level post for the head chef.

Well, it seems that now that they have all that success, the Texas Lege wants to leave more kids behind. Yes in the The Tom Delay Texas Legislative Incubator and Back-Porch Policy Dumping Ground, Houston, they're proposing to leave 45% of the children behind? How? Well, cut off their funds and you get a whole generation of under-edumacted proles...who probably will never be voters, thuse securing a whole block of "safe" constituents and their non-voting offspring.

The way the state House proposes to fund education would leave 45 percent of the state's students behind, Texas A&M University economists said Saturday.

A majority of school districts would receive only 2 percent more in state money under proposed new funding formulas being considered by a House committee working to craft a new school finance system.

The funding levels are tied to a study that measured an "adequate" education as 55 percent of students passing math and reading tests. Lynn Moak, a school finance expert, testified that the funding levels also accept a 25 percent dropout rate and a 75 percent failure rate on high school science tests.

The study, conducted by economists at Texas A&M, found that it costs more to produce higher levels of educational outcomes. Moak said he hopes lawmakers "look seriously at funding a high level standard."

Watch this one, if they are successful, it's gonna happen elsewhere with the same talking points.

Wanna bet that the reading tests will not include anything from '1984'?