Guest Speaker Mrs. Deigarrd - Posted by Chris Levitt

We needed to know more about our issue so... mrs. Deigarrd came over and shared her vast knowledge with us.
Questions we asked:

• What is going to happen as Texas population is growing? while the budget is decreasing?how will it effect schools?students? teachers?


• If Texas population grows then we have more people paying taxes - will that help? - Ningzhi


• Is this a problem is Texas only? or the whole United states? - Isaiah


• How can the state of Texas fix this?


• What is the president doing about this?- connor


• What will happen when we have more students, but less money?


• What about schools that don't have Mr. Baker, or a strong PTO like ours?
  Budget cut = spending less as a result of recession in the US?


• What is recession? what is inflation?


• How do constituents know what we want, or need when they represent us????


• What do you think they should do to help?


• What is the Texas rainy day fund? A saving account, or "piggy bank".


• 27,000,000,000 dollars short of funding


• How much does Texas have in its savings, or "rainy day fund"? 9,000,000,000 dollars


• How does the budget cut affect our school? Ask Mr. Baker


• What will happen with lack of education? what does the future hold?