School Administrators Angry Over Gaming of School Funding in Session
Mandated teacher pay raises based on one-time stimulus dollars? One official tells school districts to create two budgets--on
Harvey Kronberg
Quorum Report
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
Leading superintendents in the state are now openly, and vocally, critical of lawmakers’ decision to use stimulus funding to back-fill the school finance system.
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School districts mull faculty salary scales
Christina Lane
News-Journal.com
Tuesday, June 30, 2009
To give a step increase or not to give a step increase: That is the question East Texas school districts are facing during this summer's budget season as it pertains to teacher salaries.
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Arlington schools face a $13.6 million deficit and $128 million in capital projects
Star-Telegram
Monday, June 29, 2009
Arlington school trustees should enjoy their time off in July. They’ll need to be rested and ready for what they’ll face in August. As a matter of fact, they should come back a little early, sometime in late July, to get started on crucial decisions they’ll have to make before September.
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Districts get subsidy but also criticism
ERICKA MELLON
HOUSTON CHRONICLE
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Texas Education Commissioner Robert Scott has set off a heated debate after deciding last week to give extra state dollars to a select group of school districts — those that have opted to give homeowners a special tax break. The cash-strapped Cypress-Fairbanks school district will be the biggest winner, pocketing $6.2 million. Scott, at the urging of state Sen. Dan Patrick, took advantage of a little-known and rarely invoked state law that allows him to spend state money subsidizing districts such as Cy-Fair that grant an optional homestead exemption.
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Texas schools unsure whether federal officials will OK use of stimulus money for funding increasing
TRACI SHURLEY
Star Telegram
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
School administrators waited all spring to see whether legislators would give them a funding increase. Now that it has happened, some say they’re in limbo again.
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Small school districts' finances ride on greenhouse gas legislation
ELIZABETH SOUDER
The Dallas Morning News
Monday, June 22, 2009
TATUM, Texas – The high school sports coliseum in this tiny East Texas town is the house that coal built. The large 3-year-old gym with a soaring ceiling and theater-style seats looks like it belongs on a college campus. Yet the Tatum High School Eagles only recently advanced to 3A competition.
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