Opinion: Operation Lone Star is costing Texans billions of dollars that could be used to address the teacher crisis.
economists estimated the cost of Abbott’s April order halting border truck traffic in order to subject northbound tractor-trailers to enhanced searches cost the state more than $4 billion in lost economic activity. The week-long operation stalled traffic at all Texas-Mexico crossings, while failing to intercept smuggled migrants or illegal drug shipments.
What happens next under Abbott’s latest order is unclear. Do federal immigration authorities posted at international crossing bridges take the migrants into custody, direct them to head on foot across the bridges into Mexico, or simply ignore state authorities? Meanwhile, school superintendents are struggling to fill classrooms with teachers in advance of the coming academic year, which begins next month. The issue seems to have faded from public attention, but it is just as real now as it was as the pandemic eased and schools reverted to on-campus instruction last year.Teacher Vacancy Task Force
San Antonio Independent School District’s newly-appointed superintendent, Jaime Aquino, recently told a gathering of community leaders that Sam Houston High School on the city’s Eastside, to cite one example, needs to fill 23 teacher-less classrooms before classes begin next month.in Texas, less than 800 out of 250,000 teachers earn a six-figure salary, even after the start of a 2022 state program providing a limited number of school districts funds to increase merit pay for master teachers.
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