School districts slash summer programs as nightmarish budget planning wraps

Can you help us by taking a few minutes to fill out a survey? Your answers will give us critical insight into what you expect from the San Antonio Report. Outgoing state Rep. Steve Allison penned a letter to Gov. Greg Abbott calling for another special legislative session on school funding. In the meantime, districts make tough choices.

“I hear from families and staff and from the board ‘don’t cut programs and services’ – We have to cut programs and services. There’s no other way unless Austin does something differently,” he added. As cuts have been made, districts are looking to insulate the classroom, or what Aquino calls “the core.”

As the reality of lagging school funding comes into focus, one lawmaker is calling for action before the next scheduled session in 2025. “Texas taxpayers have dutifully invested billions of new taxpayer dollars in public schools with the hopes that this would improve educational outcomes,” Mandy Drogin, the director of the think tank’s Next Generation Texas initiative said in a statement.

The program has been instrumental for thousands of young students over the years, like Annabelle Martinez, who found her footing at the camp when she was in seventh grade and recently completed an International Baccalaureate project on the importance of the fine arts inspired by her experiences there.

The North East Independent School District, for example, is eliminating 140 unfilled campus-level positions and 16 unfilled central office positions, totaling over $13 million in savings. The district still adopted a deficit budget. “It has been a conversation across all my districts and understanding their budget challenges,” Weaver said. “Our goal is to find out what we are able to maintain.”

“At least, they feel like they have some support to continue to provide that to their students, versus when we were there at some point where they didn’t have any of that capacity,” she added.

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