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The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
The Texas Permanent School Fund is a sovereign wealth fund which serves to provide revenues for funding of public primary and secondary education in the US state of Texas. [2] Its assets include many publicly owned lands within Texas and various other investments; as of the end of fiscal 2020 (August 31), the fund had an endowment of $48.3 ...
(The Center Square) – On the same day the Texas Senate filed its 2026-2027 biennium budget proposal, the Texas House filed a similar budget. ... This includes $4.85 billion in new funding ...
Texas: $12,304 . North Carolina: $12,492 . Arkansas: $12,648 . Idaho has routinely ranked lowest in per-pupil spending, partly due to state funding that relies on local levies and local grants ...
During World War II the main universities like University of Texas and Texas A&M University gained a new national role. The wartime financing of university research, curricular change, campus trainee programs, and postwar veteran enrollments changed the tenor and allowed Texas schools to gain national stature.
As districts shore up details for their 2024-25 school year budgets, many across Texas are facing steep funding cliffs. In the Austin district, officials face an $89 million deficit on the ...
After just two days of the third special session, two major pieces of education legislation are heading to a full Texas Senate vote. Texas Senate panel advances school choice, education funding ...
At the same time as funding levels have dropped and remained inequitable, the number of school fundraising organizations, such as Parent Teacher Associations, have risen by 230%, form 990 filings required for revenues above $25,000 have increased by 300%, and total revenues have increased by 347.7% to 880 million and low-poverty school ...