The former Alamo Heights ISD board member will take local superintendents' ideas back to the House select committee assembled after Uvalde.
Tuesday’s gathering sought input from San Antonio’s public school superintendents on what resources they need to help protect students when they return to campuses this fall. Uvalde Consolidated ISD Superintendent Hal Harrell attended the meeting via Zoom.Sign up to receive The Daily Reach every morning.Whoops! There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again.
“From all accounts, we’re going to have a significant [budget] surplus going into this next session,” Allison said of the increased revenue the state expects from inflation. “It’s important that we look very strongly at one-time expenditures, and some of the areas that we’re seeing where there’s need in our schools for safety items or law enforcement are one-time expenditures.”
“I think it’d be irresponsible to have any conversation where you’re going to set limitations before you get in the room,” Martinez Fischer said of the idea of coming back to work on school safety without addressing gun violence. “To get things done in Austin, I think the last thing we should be doing is going there with our hands tied behind our backs.”
Lamenting the three special sessions added onto last year’s five-month House legislative session, Allison said, “I’m afraid we’d run into the same thing. Emotions are very high right now.”
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