District officials are turning to voters this November to help fund school safety, teacher pay, campus renovations and other priorities. Because the base...
The Nov. 7 election includes asks for help to offset insufficient funding from the state, area district leaders say.
“We’re being held hostage by a voucher program,” Forney ISD Superintendent Justin Terry said. “That’s not right for our kids. It’s not right for our teachers. It’s not rough for our community.”The base amount of money the Legislature allocates per student hasn’t increased since 2019, so district leaders say they need voter support to address multiple needs.
If voters support the Duncanville bond package, the district’s total tax rate would be about $1.13 per $100 of assessed property value. That rate would be lower than the current one because of the state’s compression of the maintenance and operations tax rate.Meanwhile, Cedar Hill expects to receive about $225,000 from the state to help with school safety.
He noted that support is creeping back up. In May’s local elections, the passage rate jumped up to about 74%, he added.Still, many fiscal conservative groups have amped up efforts to scrutinize districts’ spending requests in recent years. In Cedar Hill, for example, the school district’s efforts to pass a tax rate election in 2018 and again in 2022 failed.
About $125 million would be allocated for a new performance arts center and more than $102 million to expand the district’s athletic facilities, including what could potentially be the state’s most expensive high school football stadium. The latter of which has received
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