The Texas School Finance Plan’s Local Bottom Line

Additional per-student funding under HB 3 for the 2019-20 school year

"...increases to the "basic allotment" of per-student funding every school district receives from the state; "compression" of districts' local..."

April 26, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

School Finance Math

"...voucher system will not affect the money for public schools. Each public school district receives $6,100 for each student..."

March 26, 2025 Postmarks

Solving the School Finance Problem Is Easy

"...Dear Editors, Has anyone else noticed that schools behave just like the Department of Defense did years..."

May 5, 2004 Postmarks

School Finance, Coast to Coast

"...Plaintiff VictoryStates where plaintiffs have successfully challenged the school-funding system:..."

Oct. 1, 2004 News Feature

Texas Senate Education Committee Advances Its Own School Finance Plan

SB 4 would essentially gut the House version of the bill

May 3, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Back to Education Finance Reform

Updated: No education special, but interim committee called

"...have squelched calls for a special session on education finance reform, so Texas lawmakers are settling for the next..."

March 1, 2012 News Post by Richard Whittaker

11th Hour School Funding Bill Adds Abbott's Voucher Plan

Democrats in the House ain't gonna like it

"...Public school advocates are calling it a shady, backroom maneuver. Late..."

May 23, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

School Lawsuits Multiply

Three groups of Texas school districts are suing the state over the public school finance system

"...June, when the Legislature passed the latest round of school finance reforms, there was one question pending in the..."

Nov. 4, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Chum in the Water at Finance Trial

Dueling 'adequacy reports' liven up the courtroom

"...dueling spending reports presented this week at the ongoing school-finance trial...."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

Back to School

From Dallas to the Border, Texas shortchanges its children and its future

"...distance the state needs to travel to address the school finance crisis might be expressed in Mean Republican Units..."

Aug. 20, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Lege Lines: Full-Day Pre-K Tops School Wish List

Bipartisan support emerges for plan to fund full-day pre-kindergarten

"...the Texas Education Agency, and members of the Public School Finance Commission, and to put down some markers on..."

Feb. 15, 2019 News Feature by Mike Clark-Madison

Ratliff Helps Both Sides in School Trial

The "Father of Robin Hood" takes the "West Orange-Cove" stand

"...witness in the ongoing West Orange-Cove CISD v. Neeley school-finance trial, has shown the contrast in strategy between the..."

Aug. 27, 2004 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

The Texas Hammer: Public School Budget

Steal from the rich and give to the – well, not the kids

"...for how Texas takes a big chunk of Austin's school district taxes and quietly funnels them away from education...."

March 17, 2017 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Texas School Funding

Still unconstitutional

"...2004, he told Texas lawmakers that the state's public school-finance system failed to meet the state constitutional requirement to..."

Sept. 5, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

AISD Finance Chief Heads to Dallas

Larry Throm jumps out of the frying pan and into the fire

"...The man credited with keeping Austin Independent School District financially solvent for almost a decade is heading..."

Nov. 28, 2008 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

The Med School Solution

A medical school, a teaching hospital, and a new health care system?

"...should Travis County taxpayers help pay for a medical school?"..."

Sept. 14, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Lege Goes to School: Education Bills

"...Taxes, finance, vouchers, graduation paths, "parent triggers," and community schools: Lawmakers..."

May 1, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

New Law Could Enable School Construction Across Texas

The limit does not exist!

"...If a school district is hoping to start bond renovations soon, the..."

Feb. 17, 2023 News Feature by Madi Donham

The Next Round of School Reform

AISD focuses again on Eastside schools

"...There's a consensus in the Austin Inde­pendent School District: The schools in East Austin should get the..."

Feb. 7, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Elementary School Limbo Continues

Decisive vote on whether to close two AISD elementary schools comes down to indecisive 4-4 tie at Monday's board of trustees meeting

"...decisive vote on whether to close two AISD elementary schools came down to a profoundly indecisive 4-4 tie at..."

March 31, 2006 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

Last AISD Board Meeting This School Year Covers Budget Plan, Underperforming Students

Yes, there will be a request to increase property taxes

"...this fall. The request is baked into the 2024-25 school year budget that the district’s board of trustees approved..."

June 28, 2024 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

Campaign: Davis Returns to School

Team Wendy working on changing narrative

"...the subjects at issue were a Texas smorgasbord: public school funding, medical marijuana, "third-world" insults, and even more handguns..."

Feb. 14, 2014 News Feature by Michael King

Back to School

The ledger of candidates for school district trustee

"...on the boards of trustees for the Austin Independent School District and Austin Community College – with a rundown..."

April 23, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Back to School

Carstarphen and Austin ISD trustees wrestle over priorities, budget, and power

"...after a decade as superintendent of the Austin Independent School District, he left for his successor one piece of..."

March 5, 2010 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

School Funding Bill 'Could Have Been Worse'

Senate Bill 1 on deck for House debate

"...good news, and worse news for the Austin Independent School District in the Legislature...."

June 10, 2011 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Lawmakers Agree to Improve School Funding

Full-day pre-K, financial assistance, and more to support the state's public schools

"...the state's K-12 system, providing pay raises to most school employees, additional resources to help educate the state's most..."

May 31, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Will School Funding Take a Beating From a Pandemic-Pressed Budget?

Pandemic-pressed budget puts 2019's funding gains at risk

"...Legislature met, it pumped billions of dollars into public schools, providing districts like Austin ISD with some much-needed financial..."

Jan. 15, 2021 News Feature by Clara Ence Morse

Will Medicaid Buy a Medical School?

Waiver program could have payoff of hundreds of millions

"...On June 27, the Austin City Council's Audit and Finance Committee heard a wide-ranging four-year tax forecast from each..."

Aug. 3, 2012 News Feature by Mike Kanin

Getting School to Work

Aided by an infusion of new tax dollars from high-tech and other industries, Del Valle ISD finds success by investing heavily in school-to-career programs.

"...of technological innovation -- present-day realities in the state's school system stand out like smallpox sores. Texas leads in..."

Dec. 31, 1999 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton

Walking the High Finance Wire

Bergstrom Costs Going Up and Up

"...Austin American-Statesman on April 18, of a generation of schoolchildren at Del Valle who may grow up hard of..."

May 12, 1995 News Feature by Dave Cook

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