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Ruling: A state appeals court should not have entirely dismissed a lawsuit pitting a group of taxpayers and an ISD against another ISD.
Ruling: The former owner of real property had a good excuse for missing the two-year deadline to recover the excess funds left over from the property’s foreclosure sale for back taxes to an ISD.
Appeals Court: A state Comptroller’s decision that would reportedly cost a school district half of its supplemental state aid entitlement is upheld, despite an error on the Comptroller’s part.
Appeals Court: A company met the criteria to not be subject to property taxation for “pre-sold” crude oil being stored in Texas that was awaiting shipment to foreign countries.
Ruling: An ISD can’t avoid being sued over unpaid Hurricane Harvey repair bills.
Ruling: An ISD can’t sue a special-purpose-district industrial park on a broken promise claim because the industrial park enjoys full governmental immunity protections.
The state Comptroller this week announced details of an expanded local government bond, tax and…
Following appeals, the TEA has posted the final 2024-25 Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas…
With a few exceptions, the State Auditor concludes in a report issued today (Oct. 16,…
Since President Trump’s second inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education (USDE)…
Ruling: A “Chapter 313” tax abatement agreement between an ISD and a company became invalid due to the application not being amended to contain updated info about a merger involving the affected company.
The TEA on Friday posted the 2024-25 preliminary Financial Integrity Rating System of Texas (FIRST) data (based on SY 2023-24 data).
The TEA announced today (Aug. 5) that the preliminary ISD and charter 2024-25 Financial Integrity…
More than half a billion federal dollars designated for Texas schools is expected to be…
The Texas Supreme Court (TSC) today (June 27, 2025) announced that it has accepted an…
How ISDs and charters are to implement the state-funded school staffing pay allotments required by…
The Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) has a major stake in a $500M investment in…
Texas public school systems have until Wednesday, April 23, to sign, scan — and upload…
The Texas Association of School Business Officials (TASBO) this week released its second annual School Finance Survey of its members.
An effort aimed at “supporting Texas public schools and making charter schools more transparent and…
The TEA reported to the State Board of Education this week that the agency’s Financial…
The TEA has just released a 14-page “Report on Public Education State Funding Transparency” containing…
The TEA announced today that the final 2023-24 school district fiscal accountability ratings (following appeals) have been posted.
A complete rewrite of charter school rules, plus changes to the Student Attendance Accounting Handbook and the Local Optional Teacher Designation System.
The TEA has recalculated some of the underlying data used to derive the preliminary school district fiscal accountability ratings that were posted earlier this month.
The more than a year-long legal battle over if and when the 2023 A-F school…
State auditor’s latest report on employee incentive compensation for TRS, PSF and ERS.
This newly adopted TEA rule will result in public school districts receiving $1,500 per “non-enrolled” (home-school) student that the district allows to participate in the district’s UIL activities.
No. KP-0470: Clarifying state law governing the ceiling on property taxes a school district may impose on individuals qualifying for a homestead property tax exemption as a disabled person or a person 65 years or older.
A Texas Education News analysis of this Texas Bond Review Board (BRB) database (and of…
The TEA sent notices to 467 ISDs and charters during Fiscal Year 2023 — that…
Asking the state attorney general (AG) to clarify how the maximum taxable values for Texans with “over 65/disabled” homestead exemptions are to be calculated.
Ruling: Opponents of an ISD’s approval of a “Chapter 313” property tax limitation agreement for…
The Texas Permanent School Fund Corp. (Texas PSF) has announced the appointment of Robert “Bob”…
Voters largely just said “no” to anything having to do with an athletic facility when…
The TEA today released the final 2022-23 School (ISD) and Charter Financial Integrity Rating System…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton issued this advisory letter today on what governmental entities must…
In about a year, the Permanent School Fund (PSF) Corp.’s headquarters will have moved from…
A TexEdNews analysis of this Texas Bond Review Board (BRB) bond election database reflects that…
The capacity of the Permanant School Fund (PSF) Bond Guarantee Program (BGP) could increase from…
Texas per-pupil spending for this school year has dropped to 44th (near the bottom) nationally…
The Dallas Express reported today that Texas Permanent School Fund (PSF) Corp. CEO B. Holland…
The TEA reported (April 5) that action taken by the State Board of Education (SBOE)…
The SBOE approved a measure that is expected to free up about $6 billion in…
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