Education
PfISD adopts 2024-25 legislative priorities More state funding to increase safety efforts, maintain operational flexibility and support academic and career readiness are key items in Pflugerville ISD’s 2024-25 legislative priorities, per the district’s October administration report. The board of trustees unanimously adopted its priorities during its regular meeting Oct. 17. Zooming in The priorities PfISD submitted to Texas Associ- ation of School Boards June 6 and adopted Oct. 17 include: • Increase the current basic allotment of $6,160, or how much the district is paid per student, which would help close PfISD’s $7 million budget shortfall. • Change the public education funding model from attendance-based to enrollment-based.
HISD to streamline software by fall 2026 Hutto ISD administrators shared a plan to combine multiple internal software plat- forms used for managing staff and student data in the next year and a half, consolidat- ing eight different software platforms into one single enterprise resource platform. What you need to know In an October update provided to the board of trustees, Cara Malone, HISD’s assis- tant superintendent to human resources, and Caleb Steed, HISD’s chief financial officer, outlined how the switch would streamline internal processes for entering and managing employee data. District staff can both create efficiencies in data management and devote more resources to better support other depart- ments, Malone said.
“It’s important that our sta and our community are aware of these legislative priorities, because all of us speaking
the same message is where the real power
is in this e ort.” QUINTIN SHEPHERD, PFLUGERVILLE ISD SUPERINTENDENT
This could result in at least $16 million in additional state aid for PfISD.
• Increase allocations to fund safety mandates, per House Bill 3. The mandates require facility safety improvements and the addition of armed police officers at every campus. • Fully fund special education. The 89th Texas Legislature will take place between January-June of 2025, where TASB repre- sentatives will bring forward its Advocacy Agenda with district priorities.
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