A little under one year into the new superintendent’s tenure, the school district has...
of the board, citing a walking quorum that violated state law and chronically low-performing schools. In short, HISD has been in trouble in terms of its governance, finances, staffing and student outcomes all in recent months.The firm’s initial findings suggest that the district has budgeted with a “scarcity mindset” that hasn’t served kids best. The report suggested that the same decentralized approach that remains largely in place is partly to blame for these wonky forecasts.
That said, we’re not quite as concerned about the surplus as some people are, particularly the figures from the most recent school years, which were, to say the least, tumultuous. Amanda Brownson, associate executive director of policy at the Texas Association of School Business Officials, shared that budget forecasting has been a challenge for districts across the state lately. “Budgeting is more challenging in the world we face today in part due to COVID,” she said.
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