About $20 billion of the $32 billion surplus would be used to pay for the raises, lawmakers say.
, as well as another $4.6 billion for border security over two years. They have also discussed investments in infrastructure and public employee retirement benefits.
A 2018 online survey of educators by the Texas State Teacher’s Association, a chapter of the NEA, found that aboutduring the school year to supplement their salaries; 56 percent said they had summer jobs when school is not in session. A former teacher himself, Talarico said he used to have colleagues who drove Uber at night or donated blood plasma to make extra cash.
“Every term that I have been here, there has been no shortage of good ideas — there has always been a shortage of revenue," he said, adding thatRep. Gina Hinojosa, an Austin Democrat and former member of the Austin ISD board, said her son is in fifth grade and wasn't assigned a teacher because of staff shortages. His class was instead lumped into two already full classes.
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