Texas School District Financing Woes

Education is the only wealth that cannot take away from you. It is with you wherever you go. Education can make you a better person and it is a gift that you can share to everyone. We can get education by studying in the school that our government usually provides.

The government sets a budget for the people for education. They build schools; provide books, table, chairs and everything that a student needs for his education. This budget is coming from the taxes that the citizens pay for the improvement of the country.


The government allots a budget for every student every year for every district. Like in Texas they allot the Canyon Independent School District, spends about $6,500 in state and local money for each of its 8,700 students and also the Sheldon Independent School District, in the Houston area was not aiming for any records as a big spender when it shelled out about $9,000 for each of its 6,500 students — though that figure makes it the district with the state’s highest per-student operating costs. The statewide per-student spending average is $7,200 for districts of at least 5,000 students. Texas Politics


The budget that the government gives to his citizen is showing that he truly cares for his citizen’s education. The budget no matter how big or small the amount as long as the students received what he need in schools is better. The budget that government gives to his people for his education cannot be used as a measure on how good the school is.


Like from the two schools mention above the Canyon Independent School District and Sheldon Independent School District. The first receive a budget less than the latter. But combining the districts’ spending levels with the academic performance of their students — most of the Canyon students beat the state averages for standardized test scores and college readiness, while the opposite was true for Sheldon — it would seem logical to label Canyon a success and Sheldon a failure.

“A straight-up comparison of the dollars spent per student in District A and dollars spent per student in District B can be grossly misleading,” said Lori L. Taylor, a government professor and education researcher at Texas A&M University who has helped the state analyze school district efficiency. Such a comparison, she said, could give people the idea that their district is “wasting their money when it is actually enormously frugal but facing enormous challenges.” (Texas A&M University is a corporate sponsor of The Texas Tribune.)

“It’s been hard, and it’s been a big sacrifice,” Mr. Snow said. “It’s hard to measure the impact of that on student learning. Our student performance hasn’t suffered yet, but when you get larger classrooms, at some point in time you expect to see student performance decline.”


Education that the government gives to his people can help to make their country successful and progressive. An educated man can contribute more for the improvement of everyone’s life. Education is the most important thing that one can receive in his life.-Texas News