Educon "News" A Possibly Satirical Look at Education in Texas

Educon "News"was able to get an exclusive interview with the Royal Governor (RG) of Texas. The transcript is below.
Educon: What are your plans to make up the budget shortage for education funding in Texas?
RG: What shortage? We have plenty of money to fund education.
Educon: How can you say there isn't a shortage. It's been in the news for months. Several billion dollars, teachers losing jobs, larger classes.
RG: A shortage implies that this was unexpected. This is just following our plan to create a country club state of two classes-the haves and have nots. First, we change the funding formula so that there is less money even when the economy is doing well and then we use the downturn in the economy to blame the fact that we simply don't want to pay for education. It cost a lot of money to educate everyone and that requires taxes which we should always be reduced until they are eliminated.
Educon: So you are not concerned about the lack of funds for schools or the broken promises to school children and teachers? We can end up with the worst school system in the nation.
RG: No, not the worst school system, just the cheapest public school system. Our model is kinda a mix of California and Mississippi...we'll underfund public schools, people with money will send their chidren to private schools and then not want to pay the taxes to support public schools, and we'll keep the poor off the streets until they are old enough to work for the rest of us at minimum wage. We'll make out like bandits.
Educon: Texas already rates 47th in state aid per pupil in ADA, 38th in current expenditures per pupil, 33rd in average salary of public school teachers, 43rd in high school graduation rates, and 50th in the percent of the population 25 and older with a high school diploma.Does any of this bother you?
RG: Yes, we should be 50th in all of those categories or, as we prefer to state it, 1st in the lowest state aid and 1st in the lowest tax rates. That has been our goal for the last decade and we're getting there.

More of our interview in a later post.