re: Texas spends a ton of money on high school football.

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What are the property taxes like to pay for these things?

While its really cool that the stadiums are this nice I would have to wonder if the money could be better spent on something else education wise? Just curious

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There are two factors here.

1) Texans love their football. Varsity Blues / Friday Night Lights is completely true.

2) In the massively growing school districts, they can pass entire new bonds without raising tax rates. Someone else posted that a huge new bond was passed and his taxes didn't go up. A place like Katy is adding hundreds if not thounsands of properties - residential and commercial - to the tax rolls each year. All those new properties provide taxes. They can take part of those new taxes and repay the bonds with them. Katy passed a 750 million dollar bond last year and did not raise tax rates a penny. Between the new properties coming on to the rolls, and the natural increase of property values each year, there is enough money to handle it.

Having lived in NOLA before and after I lived in Katy, it's a completely different concept from anything LA ever has had.