Texas to hire 1,000 into institutions; Advocates skeptical
May 23rd, 2009From the Dallas Morning News:
The $112 million settlement between Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice over the state’s troubled institutions includes plans to hire more than 1,000 new workers.
… But critics of the state schools question whether pouring money and more employees into them will fix a system they say is fundamentally broken. They argue lawmakers have hiked funding and approved new hires in previous years, only to see the problems continue.
“What did we get for our money? Fight clubs, suicides, deaths that could’ve been prevented,” said Jeff Garrison-Tate, who runs the nonprofit Community Now.
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