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Lubbock ISD adopts 2025–26 budget, boards says final pay-scale decisions await House Bill 2 implementation
Summary
The Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees adopted the district2025fiscal-year budget after finance staff said the district faces a $7.6 million shortfall under current law and will wait for state implementation rules for House Bill 2 before finalizing staff pay changes.
The Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees on a 7-0 vote adopted the district202526 fiscal-year budget after hearing from Chief Financial Officer Dwayne Wilkins that the districtfaces a projected shortfall under existing law.
CFO Dwayne Wilkins told trustees the districtis projecting roughly a $7.6 million deficit based on the state funding formulas still in effect. Wilkins said the estimate uses "old law" because the Texas Education Agency has not yet published implementation rules for House Bill 2, the recently passed school finance legislation.
"When the new implementation gets rolled out, we will then come back and…
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