(Source: Texans for Education Reform) By Rhiannon Meyers The U.S. shale boom that fueled a drilling frenzy across Texas helped boost the budgets of the state's public schools last year, according to a new report by North Texans for Natural Gas, a loose coalition of people supporting natural gas development in the Barnett Shale region. Oil and natural gas development generated $1.5 billion in property tax revenue for Texas schools and another $676 million for the Permanent School...
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