Funds Budgeted for Educational Programs in Texas Schools during a Period of Changing Enrollment

• Main Author: Perry, Russ F.
• Other Authors: Camp, William E.
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: University of North Texas 2008
• Subjects: Texas; enrollment; educational; Education > Texas > Finance.; School enrollment > Texas.
• Online Access: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc9051/

This study analyzes budgets of Texas school districts experiencing declining enrollments, as opposed to districts with increasing or steady enrollments. This study identifies how schools are expending funds to meet those needs while dealing with enrollment changes. A total of 924 school districts are studied. The changes in average daily attendance from 1993-1994 to 2003-2004 are used to categorize each district as having increasing, stable, or decreasing enrollments. The total dollar amount expended is compared to the total number of students in each district to determine the amount expended per student. The amounts expended for special education career and technology education, bilingual education, and compensatory education are compared to the number of students being served by those programs to determine a dollar amount that can also be compared from the 1993-1994 and 2003-2004 school years. The per-student expenditures for each educational program are compared to the overall per-student expenditures in each enrollment category (increasing, stable, decreasing). The study reveals no clear pattern of change in the comparison of overall spending to individual program spending as district enrollments fluctuated.