Key Texas House lawmaker details $3 billion school finance fix
The vast majority of Texas school districts — including Austin — would see their per-student funding levels rise over the next two years under a bill designed to smooth out inequities among the state’s public schools.
House Public Education Committee Chairman Jimmie Don Aycock, who filed House Bill 1759, said he thinks the legislation — which increases per-student funding to poorer districts more than it does wealthier ones — would even nullify a current lawsuit against the state targeting school funding inequities.
Aycock, R-Killeen, presented the details of his $3 billion, 13-part plan during a committee hearing Tuesday.
Almost all of the components involve boosting the so-called “basic allotment,” which Aycock called “the fairest of the distribution” methods the state uses to determine how much money to divvy up among the state’s more than 1,000 regular school districts and charters.
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