Texas Education, part two

I just want to expand on my previous post about Texas Education and the failure to make education a priority in Texas. There's some options on how to better fund education here in Texas and even though some might sound crazy, you must remember that ultimately the effects of not making education a priority is far worse. Texans not getting an adequate education can lead to more students dropping out of school, not being prepared for college, less students going to college and it all leads to Texas having a diminished talent pool for the various businesses (health care, technology, banking/finance, education) in Texas. On top of a diminished talent pool in Texas, you could say it will affect public assistance resources and also, the more unaware or uneducated individuals means that politicians get away with more crap. I believe this cost far more in the long run for Texas.
Like Jefferson said, nation can't be free and ignorant. Moving on to a list of ideas to better fund Texas education:

1. Gambling
2. Raise taxes (property/businesses/alcohol/tobacco)
3. State income tax
4. Pay cuts for high earning "public" officials 
5. Cuts to certain expense fund accounts used by high earning "public" officials
6. Inheritance tax
7. Donations
8. Reconsider those businesses/organizations that are tax-exempt/receive tax cuts and tax them
9. Parent paid preschool (Austin ISD starts this type of program for 2011-2012 school year)
10. Resurrect our founding fathers (or at least Thomas Jefferson) back from the dead and let them tackle the issue.

Texas gets little funding from the federal government compared to the amount of funding that comes from local and state resources. Bottom-line, it is Texas responsibility to find a way to better fund public education and the effects are not making education a priority needs to be understood. We need a solution, the need to reform the way public education is handled in Texas has to be addressed and fixed.

Texas Constitution..

Texas.Truth posted a blog about the Texas Constitution in October about the mess our constitution has become and the need for an update. While, I can say that I agree with these statements, unfortunately this will probably not happen. Our politicians are too busy passing sonogram laws and constitutional amendments to allow them to keep their pay and not perform their current job while running for another office. Oops, that's me being bitter and disappointed. (sigh) Although, it really should be poked and prodded, re-written and updated, I seriously don't see it happening because it's easier just to make amendments than politicians actually coming together to comb through the entire constitution to rewrite it. I'm curious to know if any politician has actually read the entire constitution or if it's even possible to read the thing because of all the bandages (amendments) attached to it.
I'll expand on Texas.Truth argument that the Texas Constitution needs to be revised, it does and it has been attempted several times with no success, the closest chance this had to becoming possible was back in the 1970's and to-date The Texas Constitution has been amended 474 times!
Our constitution is too long, too confusing and poorly written.
Yes, we need an updated/rewritten constitution but the chances of it happening are not likely.........we need the politicians to get it together and Texans to pay attention and push for this to have a chance of becoming reality.