We expect the Texas House to vote on BOTH school finance bill House Bill 2 and voucher bill House Bill 3/Senate Bill 2 next week – as early as Wednesday.  

Together, these bills represent a money grab from charter schools and private schools while our already underfunded public schools get crumbs.  

HB 2:  

• Raises the basic allotment – base state funding for public schools – by $395 per student. We need a $1,386 per-student increase just to make up for inflation since 2019, the last time the state increased its share of public school funding.  

• Raises the amount of the basic allotment increase that has to go to employee raises from 30% to 40%, but explicitly removes librarians, counselors, and nurses from the list of employees who must receive a raise.  

• Ties other dedicated teacher raises to the pay-for-performance Teacher Incentive Allotment that links raises to student test scores.  

• Triples facilities funding for charter schools, which educate just 7% of Texas students, while state support for ISD facilities has fallen 67% in the past decade. 

HB 3/SB 2, meanwhile, sets aside $1 billion in taxpayer money for a private school voucher program open to all Texans – even Elon Musk's kids could get this money.  

Do you know what $1 billion could do for Texas public schools? With the money earmarked for a voucher that only Gov. Abbott seems to want, we could increase public school funding by almost $100 per student.  

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