Texas schools sue for support

republicans want to kill public education. They have gotten a great start by underfunding them.

The legal fight over Texas' school finance system is shaping up to become the largest of its kind in state history.

Texas' largest school districts — including Austin, Houston and Dallas — joined the fight Thursday when they and 60 other districts, including Round Rock, filed a lawsuit that claims the method for funding Texas public schools is unconstitutional. It is the fourth such legal challenge filed against the state in recent months.

In all, more than 3 million students go to school in districts that have signed on to one of the four lawsuits. That total exceeds 60 percent of the state's public school population and dwarfs any of the past legal challenges.

republicans want the 1% to pay no taxes while getting as much of everyone else's tax dollars they can sneak by.