Dear Brazosport ISD Community,
The 88th Texas Legislature reached the end of its regular session and has not produced
any significant legislation to improve school funding. The Texas Legislature has yet to
provide funds that would allow or address teacher pay raises, raise funding for schools
to address inflation and costs of living, nor provide any significant increase in funding for
school safety. This inaction comes on the heels of rampant inflation, a crippling
pandemic that negatively affected student academic achievement, increased student
enrollment growth, and teachers leaving the profession at an alarming rate. It should
also be noted that a state task force was convened before this legislative session began
to address teacher shortages, and its primary recommendation was to provide funds
that trained teachers and found ways to keep them in the profession longer.
This legislative session, Texas lawmakers had a $32.7 billion budget that should have
allowed for property tax relief and better funding of our public schools. Instead, the
Texas Senate and the Governor have chosen to focus their efforts politically by stalling
on adequately funding the TEXAS public schools and, ultimately, our Brazoria County
schools, teachers, and staff that educate our students and our communities.
If our state lawmakers continue to take no action on providing public school funding, the
2023/2024 school year budget will be a very challenging one for all public schools in our
county and state. Nevertheless, we are committed to providing a quality education for all
our students.
We are asking for you to join us in requesting that our legislative representatives take
action to provide our teachers with needed pay raises, increase the basic allotment for
schools so that we can continue to provide our students with the needed services and
support for them to be successful, and increase funding for school safety and security.
Our representatives can be reached at:
Governor Greg Abbott
www.governor.state.tx.us
or
https://gov.texas.gov/contact
Lt. Governor Dan Patrick
(512) 463-5342 or (512) 463-0001
https://www.ltgov.texas.gov/contact/
Senator Mayes Middleton
512-463-0111
[email protected]
Representative Cody Vasut
979-8481770
[email protected]
Representative Ed Thompson
512-463-0707
[email protected]
Your Voice Matters!
Brazoria County Area Superintendents