Gov. Perry (soon to be commandant of the proposed volunteer militia, har!) sent a letter to the Education Commissioner yesterday authorizing the textbook order process so that our kiddies can have the textbooks they need when school starts [QR]. This seems like the ploy of, "Blame it on the Legislature! I did all I could." Me, I'm not buying it. I'm glad the kids will (finally) get their textbooks, but as I heard on KUT this morning (in my getting-ready-for-work, post-Milk-Dud haze), school districts are not able to build teacher salary raises into their budgets.

I'll post a link to the KUT story when it's put on the site.