The Texas Legislature’s ‘Adequacy Study’ is the best analysis available to inform a redesign of the state’s current school finance system, but neither it nor any other study, statistical or otherwise, can justify a claim that more money is required for improvement in Texas’ education system. In addition to the report, you can download the Legislature’s study’s rankings of districts, as well as technical information about this report.
The Truth About Texas Education Funding
A recent story in the Houston Chronicle misleads readers about Texas education funding. Let’s set the record straight. School choice doesn’t take a single dollar from public schools. The Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, or TEFA, was funded completely separately through an appropriation from General Revenue. Public school funding is at an all-time high of...