Report Details Funding Cuts for Each Texas School District

In 2011, state legislators cut basic school funding by $4 billion – $2 billion each year of the biennium. Districts are now operating under the second year of those funding cuts.

At the request of State Representative Mike Villarreal (D – San Antonio), the Legislative Budget Board calculated and compiled these cuts for each school district and charter school for the 2012-13 school year.

Some interesting findings from the report:

• The five largest school districts in the state suffered a combined loss of  $351.7 million;
• Houston ISD, a district that is over 90% minority and 80% economically disadvantaged, lost $126.9 million; and
• Westbrook ISD, located between Midland and Abilene, lost nearly $400,000, equivalent to $1,660 per student.

View the full document to see how state funding cuts affected local school districts and how much districts would have received under the previous school funding formulas.