Kicking the can down the road: Understanding the discourse of Texas' school finance inequities

The purpose of this study is to examine the discourse in legislative decision making concerning education finance in Texas. After analyzing dialogue in a meeting of the Texas House on Committee on Public Education, it is my argument that neoliberal ideology forces and/or allows legislators to utilize tactics that enable their support for education to seem legitimate even while deficits exist and particular groups of students are continually disenfranchised.