Districts like Pflugerville ISD, which is struggling with a $12 million deficit and weighing school closures, say the pandemic and rising inflation have eroded the value of the state’s last effort to overhaul its public education finance system.
sat on a small stage in front of a large Texas flag as he signed a massive overhaul of the state’s public school finance system.$6.5 billion into public education spending, plus about $5.1 billion devoted to lowering Texans’ property tax bills.
, a crucial metric that helps determine how much money school districts get from the state. In Texas, if a student misses school, their district’s attendance average goes down and so does the amount of money it receives. And in a post-COVID-19 world in which parents are quicker to keep their children home if they’re feeling ill, some districts’ finances have become more volatile than ever.
Signs advertise an informational meeting about the potential closure of Parmer Lane Elementary School in Pflugerville.A flyer in Spanish advertises an informational meeting about the potential closure of Parmer Lane Elementary School to parents during student-pickup in Pflugerville on Jan. 9, 2023.Esmeralda Alvarado ruffles the hair of her son Emilio, who is in the second grade at Palmer Elementary School, in their backyard in Pflugerville.
Terrance L. Green, an associate professor at the University of Texas at Austin, said schools that close because of economic struggles are usually majority Hispanic or Black, disrupting decades of community building and leading to negative student outcomes in reading and math. Killian said the district will do everything to make it an equitable transition since — at the moment — he sees no option other than to close some schools to save money. Since last school year, the district has made cuts across department budgets, reduced administrative staff and stopped filling positions. Killian said the district can’t find anywhere else to cut.
Then there’s the pandemic, Killian said, which altered the way people think about schooling and poked holes in the state’s school funding system.
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