Advocacy Update

3/17/2025 11:29 am

State advocacy:  During the last legislative session two years ago, lawmakers left a multi-million dollar surplus on the table, passing a budget with no new funding for public schools.  Texas currently ranks 46th in the nation in per-student funding and has no mechanism for increasing funding to keep pace with inflation.  Raise Your Hand Texas and other organizations seek to rectify this situation by advocating for increased funding this legislative session.  Priorities include:  (1) increasing state funding for public school students and education programs, focusing on raising teacher pay.  (2) Implementing an automatic annual adjustment to the Basic Allotment—the foundation of per-student funding—to address inflation and our schools’ growing needs.  (3) Reinvesting state savings due to local school district property value growth into public schools.  Sign up for Raise Your Hand Texas newsletters and alerts to find out how to support these efforts.

HISD advocacy:  Did you miss the latest HISD Board of Managers budget meeting?  You can watch the meeting here.  And stay tuned as the next budget meeting on April 23 should address campus allocations–knowing how much funding your student’s campus will receive (or be cut) is critical.