During a recent Senate Public Education Subcommittee hearing one of the senators made the statement that all districts needed to "share the pain" of the budget cuts that are being proposed for public education. This same senator, when asked about equity of the funding, stated that "equity and fair are different." My question is how is it fair or equitable to cut those districts who have been at the bottom of the revenue scale and have been "sharing the pain" for decades the same as those districts who have benefitted from higher revenues?
Just as an example, let's take Harleton ISD's Target Revenue number ($4952) and compare that with the Target Revenue of Hallsville ISD ($6046). Both districts do a great job of educating children, but Hallsville is guaranteed $1094 more dollars per student to do so. With a class of 22 students that would be $24, 068 more, but we are still required to meet the same standards and accountability measures. Is it fair or equitable to then suggest that we should receive the same cut in funding as they do?
Harleton ISD has been sharing the pain. We just need our representatives to realize that.
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