College Station ISD finance staff outline budget scenarios as state teacher-pay proposal shifts funding; board to consider cuts and raises in June

At a May 20 workshop College Station ISD business staff presented the district’s preliminary 2025–26 general fund budget and a range of deficit scenarios tied to pending state legislation affecting teacher compensation and formula funding.

Miss Wilson led the budget segment and outlined the legislative timeline: the House and Senate must reconcile bills before the governor’s June 22 signature deadline. She described the contents of the committee substitute to House Bill 2 (CSHB 2), which the presentation said would dedicate large new state sums to teacher compensation through separate allotments rather than raising the basic allotment substantially.

Miss Wilson told trustees that the committee substitute placed roughly $8 billion into education but that most of the designated funding targets classroom-teacher compensation and other specified allotments. The presentation listed core effects for the district: a $55 increase in the basic allotment (to a per‑student basic allotment figure reported in the slides), a teacher‑retention allotment that provides $2,500 for teachers with three to four years’ experience and $5,500 for teachers with five-plus years, and other targeted allotments (special education changes to an intensity-based formula, increased special-education evaluation funding, transportation-per-mile adjustments, expanded dyslexia and CTE allotments and a…