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Bastrop ISD CFO previews 2025–26 budget process and warns school choice proposals pose fiscal risk
Summary
Chief Financial Officer Mike White outlined the district budget timeline, noted a historic state surplus, and flagged proposed education savings accounts and school choice proposals as major uncertainties for the district’s 2025–26 planning.
Mike White, Bastrop ISD chief financial officer, presented the district’s early timeline for the 2025–26 budget and summarized state legislative activity that could materially affect district funding.
White said the state’s recent revenue picture remains strong but highlighted policy uncertainty. He reviewed last session’s modest per‑campus safety funding and said the major statewide proposal now under discussion is expansion of education savings accounts (ESAs). White described the ESA proposal that…
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