School Finance

Wimberly Group Rally's to change mid-sized adjustment
On Thursday May 15 at 11:30 a.m. members of Texans for School Finance Reform, State Rep. Patrick Rose, Village of Wimberley community members, other school and student leaders of Wimberley High School will meet in the Speaker's Committee Room, 2W.6 Capitol
Building, with a facsimile check for $30 million, the estimated
annual amount needed from the state to fund the adjustment
for Chapter 41 districts. May 15, 2008, 08:31

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New Today! Individual Ed-Flex Programmatic Waiver Application for the 2008-2009 School Year

Middle School Physical Activity for the 2008-2009 School Year

TEA identifies partners in Texas Virtual School Network

Request for Application #701-08-109 2008-2009 Even Start Family Literacy Competitive Grant

Automated External Defibrillator Reimbursement

Middle School Physical Activity for the 2008-2009 School Year

Tax Information Frequently Asked Questions (Posted April 25, 2008)

Eighty-three percent of fifth-grade students and 75 percent of eighth-grade students pass TAKS math

TEKS Revisions Public Hearing

External Defibrillator Reimbursement

2006–07 “Final” Summary of Finances

Notice: Review TEA Correspondence to Districts
Letters on various topics sent to school districts from the Texas Education Agency.

[ View Article ] May 14, 2008, 08:41

Schools Struggle with State Budget
Local school districts are having trouble staying in their budgets planned two years ago. State lawmakers set the budgets for schools without taking into account rising costs, such as fuel and health insurance. Now some schools are struggling to make ends meet and say the state needs to do something to keep them out of the red. [ View Article ] May 14, 2008, 08:33

Some school districts to get tax windfall; 14 must repay excess
Arkansas - The state Department of Education will pay millions of dollars to several Northwest Arkansas school districts in the coming months to align with a 2007 school-funding law. According to preliminary figures, Springdale will receive $ 1. 2 million, the most of any school district in the region. Bentonville will get $ 1. 18 million, Fayetteville will get $ 1 million, and Rogers will get $ 973, 000. [ View Article ] May 14, 2008, 08:31

Board of trustees to set date for proposed budget and tax rate public meeting
Setting a public meeting date to discuss the proposed 2008-2009 budget and proposed tax rate, hearing a committee report regarding a local district leaves and absences policy for employees and hiring a new McMicheal Middle School principal are among the items that will be addresses at Thursday's Nacogdoches ISD board of trustees meeting. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the NISD Administration Building, 511 S. University St. A public meeting to discuss the proposed budget and tax rate is held each year, according to Linda Engle, NISD chief financial officer. The district's recommendation is to schedule the meeting for June 19, and if approved, it will precede the regularly scheduled board of trustees meeting, Engle said. [ View Article ] May 14, 2008, 07:49

Lancaster School Budget Hikes Tax
Lancaster School Superintendent Edward J. Myszka outlined the five versions of the proposed budget Monday night, starting with the first phase that would have increased spending 11 percent and taxes 13.6 percent. [ View Article ] May 14, 2008, 07:45

Schools say inflation puts them at risk
Good Article Repost from yesterday! AUSTIN — The school funding system approved by Texas lawmakers two years ago provides no new money to cover rising costs — especially for fuel, utilities and health insurance — and officials warn the plan's tax revenue straightjacket will allow inflation to push some school districts into bankruptcy. At-risk districts, generally, will find a way to make it for the next school year, but many face horror situations in a few years unless legislators dramatically change the school funding system again, and soon. Take the Houston-area Spring Branch Independent School District. Its budget projections show the district's current $58 million reserve fund will slide $68 million into the red within four years. [ View Article ] May 14, 2008, 07:31

West Columbia: Higher fuel prices boost C-BISD budgets
WEST COLUMBIA — The rising price of gas has affected not only the cost of food, but the cost of education, spurring Columbia-Brazoria ISD administrators to ask the school board for more money. Columbia High School Principal Steven Galloway said gas topped the list of concerns for all administrators as they prepared their preliminary budget requests, since it causes extracurricular activities to cost more. [ View Article ] May 12, 2008, 07:54

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