The HISD budget workshops continue and we have to ask, did everyone have their listening ears on?
Now that the Houston ISD school board trustees and their administration have decided not to squirrel away quite so many dollars in their general fund and instead spend a chunk of that money on the district's children and teachers, people might understandably believe that a prosperous new day has dawned, there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and everyone's ship is coming into port.
A Q and A document provided to the board in advance of the meeting explained that the $300 million was"the difference between budgeted surpluses / deficits and actual year-end surpluses and deficits over the course of five years. No new funds were identified.
Yes, House and his administration are going to look at the district's magnet system to an attempt to make it more equitable across the district but it's not something they are rushing into. He predicted it would take a year of study before they'd be able to come up with a plan, saving that particular landmine-filled territory for a later date.
Several trustees sounded the alarm over what they saw was a lack of urgency and no specific plan about building back up the number of students enrolled in the district.
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