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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