The Efficiency Intervenors (recently joined by the Texas Association of Business) have filed a new amended petition that outlines specific provisions in the education code they claim are constitutionally inefficient.
Specifically, they request the Court to rule that “the entire system of pubedulic free schools is inefficient and therefore unconstitutional.”
Inefficiencies in their list include:
- Current statutory cap on the number of charter schools prevents new charter operations from entering the Texas marketplace.
- The current statutory and regulatory burdens on traditional public schools.
- Currently no financial accountability information that demonstrates cost effectiveness of the Texas Education Agency’s (TEA) policies, processes, or the productivity of its financial decisions.
- Weights and adjustments now are “inadequate, inequitable, arbitrary, and inefficient.”
- Chapter 21 – current laws make it difficult to hire and efficiently compensate the most effective teachers and remove poor performing teachers.