Grinding Out the Truth
on Guadalupe Street:
Soap Opera Moments
in
Texas School Funding Trial
By GREG MOSES
By the way
she wears her colors and slings her political clichés, you’d be excused if you took her for Opal
Gardner-Cortland. So when I walk into the courtroom and see her sitting in the witness stand, I think I
might have fallen into the set of All My Children. But the witness in the wooden box is Texas
Commissioner of Education Shirley Neeley, and–for a little while at least–she is having a fine time
performing her self-proclaimed role as “cheerleader for Texas education.”
Texas Civil Rights Review 