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Speakers urge Frisco council to press legislature for school funding increases
Summary
During citizen input, speakers urged the council to advocate for increased state education funding, citing local school district deficits and recapture concerns; speakers called for raising the basic allotment and opposed vouchers.
Several members of the public used the citizen‑input portion of Tuesday’s meeting to urge the Frisco City Council to press state lawmakers for increased public‑school funding.
Gerald Hasty said Texas’s per‑student basic allotment has not kept pace with inflation and accused the state of holding a large education surplus; he urged council members to contact legislators to raise the basic allotment, tie it to inflation and stop redirecting recapture funds to the general fund. Hasty cited a per‑student basic allotment figure of $6,160 and said that he believed restoring 2019 funding levels would cost about $9.3 billion; he also argued against vouchers.
Dale Frey followed with further claims about local district deficits, saying Frisco ISD’s deficit was $31 million, Denton ISD’s was $24 million and Lewisville ISD’s was $22 million; he warned that underfunding could lead to school closures, program cuts and four‑day weeks in some districts and urged the council to act.
Speakers framed the appeal as a request that councilmembers use their offices to press state lawmakers for change. The speakers were members of the public and representatives of community groups; the council did not take action on the comments during the meeting.
