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Jimmie Don Aycock

Former state representative

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Jimmie Don Aycock is a Republican former member of the Texas House of Representatives and served as the chairman of the Texas House Committee on Public Education.

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Time for a reality check on public education

As our Commission on Public Education Finance struggles through the summer we wish them well. Most of us believe that accepting mediocrity is not very Texan. But the reality is that, without a discussion about increasing state revenue, their work can only join the myriad of other dust-covered school finance studies that have preceded them.