The advocacy group Raise Your Hand Texas is bringing together Dallas ISD superintendent Michael Hinojosa, Texas Sen. Royce West (D), Michelle Vopni of the Dallas Regional Chamber and DISD board president Justin Henry.
All four will be discussing how to best distribute those stimulus dollars into local school districts and communities, now that it s available.
Dallas ISD stands to gain $500 million alone.
The district has said they will use a portion of that to help pay for cell towers to connect more students in Dallas to the internet permanently. As part of Operation Connectivity, DISD is working to create a private cell network with high-speed internet for up to five Dallas communities that need it most.
Texas House advances bill to expand virtual learning options post-COVID
Rep. Keith Bell’s bill would allow more districts to open full-time online schools with guardrails in place
iUniversity Prep virtual class in Grapevine, Texas on Tuesday, February 9, 2021. The school was offering virtual learning years before the pandemic. (Lawrence Jenkins/Special Contributor)(Lawrence Jenkins)
2:51 PM on Apr 27, 2021 CDT
Texas is moving closer to loosening restrictions on virtual schools and enabling students to learn online within their local districts even after the pandemic subsides.
The House on Tuesday advanced a bill by Rep. Keith Bell, R-Forney, that would empower school districts and charters to establish their own, full-time remote learning programs that are funded similarly to brick-and-mortar campuses.
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Texas officials have yet to distribute $17.9 billion earmarked for schools in the last two federal coronavirus relief packages, even as their counterparts in other states have begun to direct federal dollars meant to help schools and students hit hard by the pandemic.
The delay has some school administrators and advocates concerned that Texas officials have other plans for the money: supplanting state funding already in draft budgets working their way through the Legislature.
Gov. Greg Abbott requested a waiver in February for $5.5 billion of the relief money the portion approved in December from a requirement that states spend the same proportion of the state budget on education as before the pandemic.
Non-profit organization dealing with education policy brings three-legged stool tour to Longview Three-legged stool (Source: KLTV) By Arthur Clayborn and Christian Terry | April 19, 2021 at 4:38 PM CDT - Updated April 19 at 4:38 PM
LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - Raise Your Hand Texas was at Longview High School today.
The group is a non-profit foundation that works in policies and advocacy.
Today, they had a three-legged stool that represents funding for public schools. School districts are in the middle of doing their budgets for next year and the stimulus money that they are waiting on plays a part in their fiscal budget.
“Over 17.9 billion dollars has already been allocated from the federal government and we are just waiting for that money to hit these local school districts so that they can make the right decisions with the right amount of information,” said Robert Long III, Regional Director for Raise Your Hand Texas.