May 23, 2019      7:35 PM

Details emerging in school finance plan: All day pre-K and teacher raises push price tag beyond $11 billion

That’s much more than either chamber had originally laid out, questions about sustainability abound but for now the state’s share of public education costs will increase from 38 percent to 45

The session’s compromise on school finance can be viewed in at least three ways: the way the leaders pitch it; the way it’s actually written on the page; and, in this case, the way the leadership pitches it to the masses, finger in the air, waiting on the next election.

The Big 3 announced a school finance deal today. Good or bad, no one would argue Gov. Greg Abbott’s point that he, the lieutenant governor and the speaker are anything but consistent. The three are one, the one is together, the message is unity this session.

“We’ve stayed together, working collaboratively every single week, every single day, sometimes every single hour of every day,” Abbott told reporters at the governor’s mansion this afternoon. “And it’s led to a very productive, very fruitful session, a session that has addressed and solved challenges that have plagued our state for decades.”

That sounds familiar. We heard it two weeks ago.

By Kimberly Reeves

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