March 22, 2019      3:44 PM
Some Texas House members getting antsy looking for numbers on how ISDs will fare under school finance plan
In school finance debates, impacts to individual districts often create winners and losers under major system shifts. Chairman Huberty has urged members to trust the process and principles behind the bill
Texas House leaders are decidedly tight-lipped
on the actual impact their school finance plan will make on individual school
budgets, a departure from past sessions. The House has a school finance bill
with many moving parts, the most complicated school finance bill since the
passage of then-Rep. Scott Hochberg’s
HB
3646 in 2009.
At this point in the passage of a school finance bill,
the first runs – a spreadsheet of the impact of the bill on school district
budgets – would be circulating among House members. Both the Texas
Education Agency and the Legislative Budget Board produce
these runs, although it will be the work of the LBB that will ultimately guides
final numbers.
To be clear, school finance runs currently do exist. The
point of contention is over who has seen them.
By Kimberly Reeves
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