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HISD board approves 2025–26 budget as district narrows deficit to about $14.7 million
Summary
The Houston Independent School District board on June 12 adopted the district's recommended 2025—— 26 budget after staff described state revenue increases and expense reductions that narrowed an earlier, much larger deficit to an estimated $14.68 million.
The Houston Independent School District board on June 12 adopted the district's recommended 2025—— 26 budget, after administration presentations showing state revenue increases and central-office reductions that narrowed a prior multi-hundred-million-dollar gap to an estimated $14.68 million shortfall.
Superintendent Mike Miles and CFO staff told the board that recent state allotments and other changes increased revenue by about $175.4 million and that central-office and campus reductions trimmed expenditures by roughly $122 million. Miles said HISD would end the year with an approximately $785 million fund balance and that the administration expects to close the remaining gap through additional measures this fiscal year.
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