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#1
In overall toxic releases
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#1
In recognized carcinogens in the air
-
#1
In suspected carcinogens in the air
-
#1
In developmental toxin in the air (affecting
brain and nervous-system development in children)
-
#1
Cancer risk
-
49th
in spending for the environment
-
#1
In major discharge facilities with 575 major
facilities
-
#2
In total number of minor Nipdes facilities,
about 5,700.
-
3,000
Miles, or one third, of Texas rivers and 44%
of Texas bays are polluted to the point that
they do not meet the standards set for recreational
and other uses.
-
13
Texas lakes were covered by advisories or
bans on fish consumption in 1996.
-
#1
in use of Deep Well Injectors as method of
Waste Disposal
-
#1
in Total Number of Hazardous Waste Incinerators
-
#1
in Environmental Justice Title 6 complaints
-
#1
in production of Cancer causing Benzene &
Vinyl Chloride
-
#1
Largest Sludge Dump in Country
-
#1 in the Emission of Ozone Causing Air Pollution
Chemical
-
The
state of Texas under G.W. Bushís leadership
is ranked 50th in spending for teachers salaries
-
41st
in per capita spending on public education
-
43%
of Texas teachers plan to leave or are considering
leaving teaching.
- Money
that could have gone into raising teacher salaries
went into tax cuts for the rich.
- The
high school dropout rates in Texas are 30% overall
- The
high school dropout rate in Texas is 50% among
minorities
- Missing
students and other mirages in Texas enrollment
statistics profoundly affected both reported
dropout statistics and test scores.
- At
the start of every school year, school begins
with literally hundreds of classrooms without
teachers
- Governor
Bush appointed a teacher certification board
that, instead of working on improving the standards
for the teaching profession and improving teacher
quality, he decided instead to allow people
who have poor credentials to enter into the
teaching profession
- One
in five Texas high school teachers are not certified
- About
41,000 of 63,000 vacancies in Texas public schools
were unfilled in 1999
- Since
about 1982, the rates at which Black and Hispanic
students are required to repeat grade 9 have
climbed steadily, such that by the late 1990s,
nearly 30% of Black and Hispanic students were
"failing" grade 9.
- Texas
charter schools were even poorer than public
schools. Even though the racial mix was skewed
to non-white, and the number of schools (66)
is small, the economically disadvantaged rate
was very similar, the percent of special ed
students was less in the charter schools, and
the test scores were uniformly substantially
lower.
- On
national tests (NAEP), with one exception (4th
grade math), Texas scores have remained flat
over the period Bush was governor
- After
Bush took office, Texasís own state test TASP
(a college readiness test) results showed a
sharp decrease (from 65.2% to 43.3%) in the
percentage of students passing all three parts
(reading, math, and writing).
- Performance
on the SAT in Texas did not improved since the
early 1990s, (compared with SAT takers nationally)
- 79%
of Texans who are 25 or older have a high school
diploma or equivalency certificate and 24% have
bachelor's degrees - both lower than the national
average
-
147,000
people in state prisons. Counting state
jails and on parole, there are 545,000 people
in the system.
-
On
any given day 450 people were on death row.
Since 1976 Texas has executed 138 people -
some of which were people who were mentally
ill, profoundly retarded, and people who are
innocent.
-
48th
in per capita funding for public health
-
47th
in delivery of social services
-
5th
in percentage of people living in poverty
-
#1
in percentage of poor working parents without
insurance
-
#1
in children without health insurance
 
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