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Texas Public School Funding: The Target Revenue System & its Impact on Avalon ISD

Explore the Target Revenue System and its inequitable funding distribution, specifically its impact on Avalon ISD. Learn about the disparities in funding and discover ways to address this issue.

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Texas Public School Funding: The Target Revenue System & its Impact on Avalon ISD

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  1. Texas Public School Funding The Target Revenue System How does it affect Avalon ISD? ByDavid Del Bosque, Superintendent Avalon ISDSeptember 2010

  2. School districts receive funding from three main sources: it is a shared arrangement

  3. Background – How we got here…West Orange-Cove vs. Neely (2005)

  4. House Bill 1

  5. House Bill 1Target Revenue Funding

  6. Target RevenueTarget Revenue Funding – The Great Disparity

  7. The Target Revenue System • The system is arbitrary and district specific • The system is inequitable – Avalon’s Target Revenue is in the lowest 3%. • State Average – $5,455 • Austin - $6,102 • Avalon – $4,755

  8. Ellis County Target Revenues • State Average – $5,455 County Average • Austin - $6,102 $5,131 • Midlothian – $5,617 • Waxahachie – $5,553 • Milford – $5,193 • Red Oak – $5,130 • Ennis – $5,087 • Maypearl – $5,034 • Palmer – $5,012 • Ferris – $4,975 • Italy – $4,957 • Avalon – $4,755

  9. Disparity in Funding – Comparing Avalon ISD to State Average

  10. An Inequitable Funding System

  11. System Cost Drivers

  12. Excellence at Avalon ISD

  13. Reflection

  14. What can you do? • Contact your legislator to express concern for adequacy and fairness of the school funding system. • Describe how the unfairness of the current system affects our children and taxpayers.

  15. References • Austin Independent School District. (2010, March 30). Austin Independent School District: FY 2010-11 Preliminary Budget [PowerPoint]. Retrieved July 31, 2010 from http://www.austinisd.org/inside/docs/AISD_Budget_Preliminary_Budget_ 20100330.ppt. • 79th Texas Legislature, 3rd Special Session (2006). House Bill. Retrieved June 20, 2009, from http://www.legis.state.tx.us/ tlodocs/793/billtext/pdf/HB00001I.pdf. • Equity Center. (2009, June 1). Summary of CCR for HB3646 and Impact Runs. Retrieved July 1, 2009, from http://www.equitycenter.org/legsession/ 81r/HB3646%20Runs/CCR/fy10%20 district% 20run.pdf. • Equity Center. (2010, March). Basic Allotment: The Buck Starts Here.Equity CenterNews and Notes,29,2,1. • NO. GV-100528. (2004, November 30). Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law.  • Retrieved November 15, 2009 from http://www.equitycenter.org/ • WestOrangeCove/Findings%20of%20Fact%20and%20Conclusion%20of%20Law.WOC.113004.pdf.  • TASA and TASB. (2008). Report on School District Mandates. Austin: TASA and  TASB. August 4, 2009.

  16. References • Texas Association of School Boards. (2010, February). Issue Paper – Funding Texas   • Public Schools: The Target Revenue Approach. Retrieved July 28, 2010, from http://offline.tasb.org/legislative/resources/documents/issue_targetrev.pdf. • Texas Education Agency. (2010, April.) School Finance 101: Funding of Texas Public Schools. Retrieved July 14, 2010 from http://ritter.tea.state.tx.us/school.finance/ School_Finance_101.pdf. •  Texas Taxpayers and Research Association. (2010, May). An Introduction to School Finance in Texas. Retrieved June 24, 2010 from http://www.ttara.org/docs/ IntroToSchoolFinance_Final.pdf

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