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SBISD has earned a perfect score, 100 out of 100 possible points, in the state’s FIRST financial accountability system. 24 years of Superior ratings & smart decisions that support Every Child. #SBISDProud 🔗 sbisd.co/4oH2GBc

Morath claims $7M in “new” funding for @SBISD. The “new” money is really just SBISD keeping a tiny bit more of the taxes we raise locally before we send our recapture payment to Austin which I’ll remind everyone was $80M last year. Our money and other district’s recapture payments then get laundered through the general fund producing a significant portion of the $30+ billion surplus our state government is sitting on. Shameful to have a governor sitting on that money and neglecting TX students and teachers to play political games. @GregAbbott_TX

SBISD largely outperformed a comparative group of area school districts on the Spring 2023 STAAR tests based on a report issued by @GoodReasonHou! Read more about how SBISD shines in Good Reason Houston's analysis 📲 bit.ly/GoodReasonHous…

What happens when one taxing unit makes decisions for everyone across the state? Well nothing good happens!! We heard disturbing testimony in my Senate Local Government Committee hearings on PFCs (Public Facility Corporations) from Williamson County Treasurer, Scott Heselmeyer @DSHeselmeyer, who talked about the city of Jarrell not knowing that money was coming off their tax rolls and San Marcos Mayor @janehughson testifying about a luxury apartment complex in Hays county that paid $366,000 in property taxes in 2021. Turned into a PFC, with a 99 year lease, and are claiming a total property tax exemption of $463,000 for 2022. #Txlege needs to stop any taxing unit from ripping a property value off of the tax rolls outside of their jurisdiction without the input of elected officials from those counties & cities. My SB 1546 passed unanimously and is off to the Texas House! #txlege @TPPF

We are not even close to an all-time high in @sbisd or #txed. Funding formulas are still broken and #txlege won’t use excess to increase basic allotment, so I have to figure out how to cut 50M of 340M budget. If I could keep (some) of $84M* recapture that’d help. (*most recent #)

Imagine bragging about being at an all time high in per student funding and still ranking 43rd among states while building a record surplus on the backs of school districts through recapture🙄 @govabbott @sbisd