School Finance. Texas. LBB Chart. 5 Criticisms from the Right.

The Texas Public Policy Foundation raises these criticisms of a LBB Fiscal Size Up chart on page 205 that lists school funding sources from 2010-2019:

• The chart includes 1 time federal funding in 2009
• If one time federal funding were not included the drop in funding would be less
• it excludes local proerty taxes funding local bonds for schools
• it excludes TRS payments
• Texas doesn’t want to be NY and CA which have:
  • worse student achievement for minority children and
  • worse economic growth than Texas.

Included in this is that the following items are untrue:

• “hardworking families and businesses — don’t spend enough on public schools at the “state level;”
• poor school districts are hit hardest by underfunding; and
• if taxpayers just spent much more at the “state level,” then student outcomes would be improved.

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