Texas refuses to fully fund schools, then leaves districts to squabble over recapture | Opinion
Second-grade teacher Michelle Jones conducts a lesson in her classroom at Tom Gooch Elementary School in Dallas in May.When school budgets get tight, property-wealthy districts are often quick to blame the primary equity tool of the school finance system, recapture.
The Legislature underfunded the recommended amount in 1984 — pre-pandemic and pre-modern workforce. Since then, the Legislature has made random changes in irregular intervals. This arbitrary basic allotment also determines if a district is considered “property-wealthy” or “property-poor.” Those who villainize recapture claim it doesn’t take a wealthy district’s low-income student population into account. We know that’s not true because the formula takes all low-income students into consideration.
Rapid expansion of charter schools is another reason recapture is growing across the state. Recapture is triggered when a district collects more property tax revenue per student than the state allows it to have. When a student leaves a traditional ISD for a charter school, the amount of property tax revenue that district collects per student increases.
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