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The analysis found that on average, Texas public schools have received $10,387.03 in the 2023-24 school year for each of the 5.07 million students from state and local allocations — 1% more than ...
A 2020 investigation by the Houston Chronicle found that the school district's suspension rate increased dramatically during the first year of the takeover, and continued to increase to the point where students were suspended at a rate six times the average for Texas school districts. During the 2018-2019 school year, Beaumont ISD had a rate of ...
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
As districts shore up details for their 2024-25 school year budgets, many across Texas are facing steep funding cliffs. In the Austin district, officials face an $89 million deficit on the ...
In 2021, Texas 2036 and the Center for Houston's Future, an independent affiliate of the Greater Houston Partnership, released a report analyzing the impact of world oil prices on Texas public education funding. The report found that "reliance on the oil and gas industry could jeopardize up to $29 billion in public school funding over the next ...
At the Texas Public Policy Foundation's annual summit Wednesday, Gov. Greg Abbott touted his backing of pro-"school choice" candidates against Republican incumbents in the Texas GOP primaries.
The Texas Permanent School Fund is a sovereign wealth fund which serves to provide revenues for funding of public primary and secondary education in the US state of Texas. [2] Its assets include many publicly owned lands within Texas and various other investments; as of the end of fiscal 2020 (August 31), the fund had an endowment of $48.3 ...
After just two days of the third special session, two major pieces of education legislation are heading to a full Texas Senate vote. Texas Senate panel advances school choice, education funding ...