Texas schools are struggling with declining enrollment, leading to a funding crisis. The amount of funding a school receives is heavily dependent on enrollment, and with fewer students, schools are facing budget cuts and program reductions.
Funding for the Texas public education system is in a bit of a crisis, and lawmakers on both sides of the political spectrum have filedwitnessed in school districts across the state. Factors like testing scores and daily attendance affect the amount of funding a school receives, but enrollment is the heaviest hitter. Currently, schools receive a base allotment per student of $6,160, and no students means no money to offset high operational costs.
Enrollment is dropping, and school districts across North Texas anticipate a decline by several thousand students in the next few years. During the pandemic, when daily attendance declined tenfold, billions of dollars in federal funding flooded school districts through President Joe Biden’s Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief. But the well has dried, and districts everywhere are opting for budget cuts and program reductions. Enrollment decreases are the result of several causes. Chiefly, the birth rate has decreased and educational options have expanded
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