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4A-Burleson Star. Thursday. October 8.1992
■Erickson/Finstad debate on education
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"It's almost five months now that
I've been in office. It wasn’t long after
I was elected that I wrote to the gov-
ernor to ask her for a special session.
Once you're elected you shoud be re-
sponsible and part of being respon-
sible was having a session on educa-
ton to let the folks know what the
funding was going to be and what the
overall picture looked like. The best
thing about that is it puls it under the
eye of the people.
"But the governor wrote me back
to say that there was not a concensus
among the members that they wanted
a session. I did a little polling and,
sure enough, there wasn't.
" And it's sad that they didn't want
to go down there at that lime and do
it
”1 will be responsible and come
back and tell you what I can and can
not accomplish. You put your best
effort out and go down there and try
to get as much accomplished as you
can.
"I guess the most concerned part
of my.heart when I was on the school
board was seeing those 300 plus
graduates and wondering each year
what they would do in society and
would they be able to find jobs. I
think you folks have them prepared
for that I'm very thankful for that.
"I will definitely try to get the
best education bill I can for you. I will
specifically attempt to ensure that
there arc no state mandates without
state funding. I'll try to getrid of a few
things you teachers have to put up
with, like evaluations and so forth.
There's only one good evaluation a
teacher has and that’s the final prod-
uct, whether my child or somebody
else's, what they do and what they've
learned from you. And there is no test
or mcasurcmemnt for that."
Finstad: "Education has been a
priority with me since the first day I
started to school when I was six years
old. I enjoyed school, thanks to some
very good teachers who made itinter-
csting and made me want to go to
school. I think that education should
be a priority in our state. I've been
married to a teacher for 22 yedfs. My
husband is now the executive direc-
tor of the state agriculture teachers
association.
"We have four children and we
raised them at Cal Farley's Boys
Ranch, which is a home for neglected
children. One of those children grew
up to be a congrcssman.First he was
a stale senator and my husband and I
both spent eight years working for
him in Austin. He had an opportunity
to run for Congress and we spent two
years working for him in Washing-
ton, D.C., in his Congressional office
so I have had experience in the legis-
lative process through working with
the system and getting things accom-
plished.
"I am the only candidate with
experience in both education and
legislation.
"If we are to have a viable econ-
omy we must educate our children.
When you talk to people, they're
concerned about job security; about
our economy; about affordable health
care and insurance; and about taxes.
They don’t want unnecessary gov-
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emment spending so we must evalu-
ate and prioritize.
"It costs $15 billion for educa-
tion in this state. The state puts in
$6.4 billion and a few dollars are
added by the federal government and
the rest comes out of local taxpayers'
pockets. If the state put more money
into education, we wouldn't be in the
court system we are now with equal-
izing our educational funding.
"When you talk to teachers., they
talk about the pay raises. Peopte say
we can't afford that, but if we are to
have quality education, it begins with
teacher benefits, (such as) pay raises
and health care. State employees are
provided state-funded health care and
teachers should have a health care
plan that's as good as the one other
state employees have.
"If we paid $150 per month for
Geneva Finstad, the Democratic hopeful, and Rep. Bernard Erickson,
a former BISD board member, recently debated on education issues
before a group of Burleson teachers in the high school library.
teacher health care, it would cost us
about $167 million a month. Where
can we get that kind of money? Well,
a lot of people thought lottery money
was dedicated to education. The lot-
tery is bringing in more money than
we anticipated so why couldn't we
take some of that money for health
care for our teachers?
"Our retired teachers could also
be prov ded health care from the state
by taking money from the TRS
(Teacher Retirement System). The
state wants to borrow money from it
and it has an eye on it for the next
session already. That's one of the
ways it will be looking at getting
money for general funds. That money
is teacher money and should be kept
for their benefit only so, if anyone
wants to borrow that money, let re-
tired teachers borrow it.
"One billion dollars at 8 percent
interest is $8 million. We could set up
a fund for teacher insurance and the
TRS would still have its billion dol-
lars. We could take four or five bil-
lion for one year so we could provide
benefits for our retired teachers. They
are having a difficult time.
"State law requires the state con-
tribution (to TRS) to go back to 8
percent in October, 1993. They low-
ered it when they were looking for
money and I would like to see that
they do not renege. I know this is an
aggressive agenda, but it’s one I be-
lieve we can accomplish in the next
session."
Candidates then responded to a
set of prepared questions from mod-
erator Letha Grace McCoy prior to
fielding several questions from the
sparse crowd of teachers.
Boulware
named top
prosecutor
by lawyer
association
Johnson/Somervell County Dis-
trict Attorney Dan Boulware has
received the top honor from the Crimi-
nal Justice Division of the Texas Bar
Association.
Boulware was named prosecu-
tor of the year by the association.
Each year, the association hon-
ors three of its members by naming
one judge, one prosecutor, and one
defense attorney as being outstand-.,;
ing in each field of law during the
year.
Boulware was joined in being
honored by "Scrappy" Holmes of
Texarkana, defense attorney of 1992,
and Larry Gist of Beaumont, judge of
the year.
The awards were presented in
July at the annual Texas Bar Associa-
tion meeting; however, Boulware was
involved in a trial at that time and was
unable to attend. He received his
plaque last week at the annual con-
ference of the Texas District and
County Attorneys Association held
at South Padre. Jerry Cobb, chairman
of the Criminal Justice Division of
the State Bar Association, made the
presentation.
Boulware said he considered it
"quite an honor to have been chosen
for the award by my peers, practitio-
ners in the field of criminal law, who
are aware of how the job should be
done.”
In 1987, Boulware was named
prosecutor of the year by the War on
Drugs Committee and, at that time,
received the Ross Perot Award for
his outstanding work in Johnson
County narcotics prosecution.
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Ellertson, Sally. Burleson Star (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 103, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 8, 1992, newspaper, October 8, 1992; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth763332/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Burleson Public Library.