Judge: Texas School Finance System Unconstitutional

Now what? Legislators, education advocates and think tanks respond

"...Dietz finally released his ruling yesterday on the Texas public school finance system, it was no surprise to anyone:..."

Feb. 5, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

School Finance Plan Headed for Hearing

Aycock promises no losers as Senate obsesses on vouchers

"...Can Texas avoid further school finance lawsuits? That's what House Public Education Committee Chair..."

April 8, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

House Rolls Out School Finance Bill

Republican leaders propose $9 billion in funding for public schools over the next two years

"...Republican leaders in the Texas House of Representatives rolled out..."

March 8, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Texas Senate Education Committee Advances Its Own School Finance Plan

SB 4 would essentially gut the House version of the bill

"...8-0-3 to advance a fleshed out version of its school finance plan Wednesday morning, and the full chamber is..."

May 1, 2019 News Post by Austin Sanders

Dietz Stays on School Finance Suit

Hail Mary play by AG Abbott fails to force judicial recusal

"...Dietz remains presiding over the challenge to the state's school finance suits...."

June 24, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Texas Supremes: Not Our Job to Fix School Finance

Long-awaited ruling says school funding system constitutional

"...The Texas school finance system meets the minimum standards demanded by the..."

May 13, 2016 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Court Rules Texas School Finance Unconstitutional

Dietz says current system fails students, must be rebuilt

"...Dietz today issued his final ruling on the state's school finance system: It is unconstitutional, and it is failing..."

Aug. 28, 2014 News Post by Richard Whittaker

Lege Lines: School Finance Math; Tax Plans Diverge; Veteran Benefits Restricted; and More

Is school finance dead this session?; House and Senate tax plans split; Lege restricts veterans' benefits; and more

"...School Finance: Add Cash, Subtract Reform..."

May 15, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

A Change of Circumstances: Judge Reopens School Finance Lawsuit

New legislation could be discussed in court in January

"...Judge John Dietz ruled that he will re-open the school finance hearings in January 2014...."

June 19, 2013 News Post by Richard Whittaker

School Finance Reform Dead

House Bill 1759 disappears, taking $800 million with it

"...enough blame to go around for the failure of school finance reform...."

May 14, 2015 News Post by Richard Whittaker

School Finance: Still Hard

Panel approves recommendations to improve state's outdated school funding system

"...At the Texas Commission on Public School Finance's final meeting in December, the 13-member panel..."

Jan. 4, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

Making the Math Work on Real School Finance Reform

"Texas Plan" brings new money to Austin and other districts, but nothing's final yet

"...Greg Abbott the largest funding boost for the state's public schools in more than a decade. House Bill 3,..."

April 26, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

What School Finance Crisis?

The Lege considers school finance, and recommends ways to cut wages and fire teachers

"...Even by government standards, the Joint Select Committee on Public School Finance report to the Legislature issued last week..."

March 26, 2004 News Column by Michael King

Judge Dietz Finds School Finance System Unconstitutional

Court ruling ends five-week trial with a mandate to Legislature to design a new system

"...five-and-half-week trial by ruling unconstitutional the Texas system of public school finance. Following a brief recess in the immediate..."

Sept. 17, 2004 News Feature by Michael King

Lege Lines: School Finance Bill Passes House With Flying Colors

Stickland only holdout on ambitious “Texas Plan” finance bill

"...House Bill 3, the session's marquee school finance legislation, survived over three hours of debate on..."

April 12, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

School Finance Back in Dietz's Court

Eight years after Dietz ruled for massive reform, school finance returns

"...In 2004, Judge John Dietz's ruling on the Texas' public school finance system lead lawmakers to make massive reforms...."

Jan. 27, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

School Finance: Abbott Doubles Down

Refuses to drop his appeal of court's ruling

"...latest match-up in the never-ending battle of "Texas vs. Public School Finance."..."

Oct. 3, 2014 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

School Finance on Trial

Hearing only expected to last a short two and a half hours

"...undermine Judge John Dietz's 2014 ruling finding the current school finance system unconstitutional. Then intervenor groups, including the Texas..."

Aug. 28, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Dietz Rules Against School Finance System

Judge rules school finance unconstitutional

"...Texas' school finance system is unconstitutional. That was the blunt ruling..."

Feb. 8, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

School Finance Bill Heads for the Floor

Republicans pass HB 2 out of committee over educator objections

"...The House Public Education Committee, dominated by Republicans, pushed the school finance..."

March 4, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

School Finance: Where We Are and How We Got Here

The Supreme Court's ruling leaves a lot of blanks for the Lege to fill in

"...a Texas Supreme Court decision that declared the state's school finance system to be teetering on the brink of..."

Dec. 9, 2005 News Feature by Kimberly Reeves

School Finance: A Timeline

"...lawmakers establish system of free ("adequate" and "equitable") Texas public schools, under state constitution...."

May 1, 2015 News Feature

Dems Almost Steal School Finance Thunder

Underdogs' ambitious education package carried the support of a dozen Republicans and every House Democrat

"...came within a whisker of seizing control of the school finance debate this week, but a tie-breaking vote foiled..."

July 1, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Lawmakers Pitch Income Tax, School Finance Reform Plan

Quixotes saddle up their horses

"...Two lawmakers used last week's ongoing debate over school finance as a well-timed opportunity to pitch an income..."

March 18, 2005 News Feature by Amy Smith

Texas House Advances Ambitious School Finance Bill

Teachers’ union celebrates shedding of merit pay provision

"...The House Public Education Committee passed a committee substitute for the big..."

March 22, 2019 News Feature by Austin Sanders

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

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

Nicole Conley Johnson Joins Public Education Review

AISD CFO becomes fourth member of Texas Commission on Public School Finance

"...AISD CFO Joins Public Ed Review..."

Jan. 5, 2018 News Feature 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...."

May 23, 2023 News Post by Brant Bingamon

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

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