Gov. Greg Abbott and the Texas Education Agency announced Tuesday that public school districts will not lose funding due to pandemic-related attendance drops.
The average daily attendance is calculated by the sum of children present divided by days of instruction that schools are required to give. Texas schools have to be open for a minimum of 75,600 minutes over a school year, which includes recess and lunch.
“Providing this adjustment to the 2021-22 school year will ensure school systems have the funding they need to retain the best and brightest teachers and provide quality education to all public school students across Texas,” Abbott said in a statement. During the fall of 2020, the state continued to fund schools for attendance estimates made before the pandemic. Then in the spring of 2021, when it was clear that enrollment was still not catching up, the state once again gave school districts that same leeway as long as they maintained or increased the rate of students attending class in person.
The state had seen an increase in public school enrollment every year since the 1987-88 school year up until 2020-21, when enrollmentto 5.3 million students — roughly a loss of 122,354 students from the 2019-20 school year, according to the latest TEA numbers.
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