Home • Missouri Independent [Unofficial]Missouri school funding overhaul runs into a property assessment problem
Houston Public MediaTexas school districts' best chance of seeing a significant increase in per student funding next year now appears unlikely.
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Texas Senate proposal swaps school funding increase for teacher pay boost that favors small districts
Texas school districts' best chance of seeing a significant increase in per student funding next year now appears unlikely. The school finance package now uses that money directly for teacher pay.
The chair of the Texas Senate Education Committee has outlined his vision for boosting teacher salaries, with a focus on retaining experienced educators.
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New Texas teacher pay bill proposes increasing certain salaries by as much as $10,000
Last school year, the average teacher in Texas made thousands of dollars less than teachers in other states. A nearly $5 billion bill filed Tuesday in the Legislature seeks to provide across-the-board raises and put more money toward bonuses.
Houston ISD’s state-appointed board of managers, after hearing from more than 100 community members who spoke out against a proposed $2.1 billion budget that doubles down on Superintendent Mike Miles' reforms, narrowly voted to approve it.
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Houston ISD’s state-appointed board, with 5-4 vote, approves $2.1 billion budget for 2024-25
The operating budget for next school year doubles down on HISD Superintendent Mike Miles' New Education System, which was implemented at 85 schools this year and is expanding to another 45 campuses.
Spring ISD trustees are considering asking voters to approve a property tax rate increase as the Houston-area school district tries to close a multi-million-dollar funding gap for the 2024-25 school year.
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Spring ISD trustees approve $468.9 million budget, will consider asking voters to approve tax-rate increase
Leaders for the district, which serves more than 34,000 students north of Houston, have been working in recent months to make up for an anticipated budget shortfall of more than $25 million, which they have attributed to inflation, declining enrollment and attendance in recent years and the fact Texas lawmakers have not increased the state’s per-student allotment for public schools since 2019.
Trustees for Spring Branch ISD, who blame state leaders for an anticipated budget shortfall of $35 million next year, voted this week to close two schools and dissolve charter school programs at three other campuses.
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Spring Branch ISD closing two elementary schools, cancelling charter school partnership
More than 2,100 students will be impacted by the shuttering of two campuses and charter school programs at three other schools in the West Houston district, which is cutting costs in anticipation of a $35 million budget shortfall for the 2024-25 school year. Spring Branch ISD leaders say Texas officials are to blame for not providing more funding for public schools.
Cara"the Bloomingdale school district funded 810 K–12 students but is reported as an elementary district with only 554 students. With $7.7 million in tuition expenses for high schoolers, Bloomingdale’s per-pupil revenue and expenditures are inflated by $13,933." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.3102/0013189X221133396#bibr2-0013189X221133396 #EdResearch #SchoolFinance #DataQuality
Preston GreenAn argument for a reparations approach to school finance disparities.
https://www.theregreview.org/2022/12/01/ross-can-school-finance-reform-support-reparations/
joshcowenmsuSaw this at the gas station this AM.
It’s basically the #schoolfinance #edpolicy #education plan behind so-called #EducationFreedom #SchoolVouchers:
Diverting real $$ into a speculative market with high uncertainty/low accountability.
Arizona's expansive #schoolvoucher law raises funding concerns for Arizona school districts.
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https://www.inmaricopa.com/will-arizonas-new-school-voucher-law-take-a-financial-bite-out-of-musd/