TX state budget cuts: autism funds, school background checks, daycare monitoring

[rainbow4321]

Sickening..the list goes on and on.


http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/firstreading/entries/2011/04/01/house_is_in_at_830.html?fb_ref=homepage



16) It zeroes out $6.7 million from a program that provides services to children with autism.

17) It reduces rehabilitation services to individuals who have general disabilities or are deaf or hard of hearing by 13.5 percent

19) It cuts $4 million — 6 percent — from the agency that enforces minimum standards and investigates reports of abuse at child day care centers, residential child care and maternity homes.

20) It cuts funding for a program that aims to combat the state’s shortage of nurses from $47 million to $15 million.

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27) It eliminates the Teach for Texas Loan Repayment Program.

28) It eliminates funding of life-skills classes for teen parents.

29) It eliminates funding for background checks of school employees.

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46) It virtually eliminates all funding — $20 million — for housing placement and retention services for homeless families and individuals.

[Le Taz Hot]

1. School Background Checks?????

Every pedophile in the country with a degree will be moving there to apply for teaching positions. Holy shitskies!

[freshwest]

3. GOPers must find a way to reproduce themselves, you know?

[roguevalley]

9. if I had kids in school this would be a reason to leave texas.

[freshwest]

10. That and paddling special education students with 4 foot long paddles, yes.

[freshwest]

2. 'This is what your brain looks like' -- on a solid GOP majority!

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[liberal N proud]

5. Cuts: autism funds during Autism Awareness week

That is calculated cruelty.

[liberal life]

6. We need to stop these sick bastards!

Why do these financial terrorists hate Americans?


http://fucorporatemedia.com/

[atreides1]

8. It's not that they hate all Americans

Just the poor,the disabled, and the weak...the "surplus population" as Scrooge called them!

But they do love the zygots in the womb.

[freshwest]

11. Future tools, blank pages, to be written on with their belief systems.

[ceile]

7. The race to the bottom is nearly complete.

What's even worse is that millions was taken from family planning services of all kinds to make up for disability shortfalls- and it still was only a drop in the bucket!

[freshwest]

12. Texas collapsed morally when Ann Richards was put out of office by Bush.