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Georgetown ISD trustees model 2025–26 cuts; TRE and attendance gains offer limited fixes
Summary
At an April 7 board workshop, Georgetown ISD trustees reviewed a preliminary 2025–26 budget and modeling under current law, were asked to approve department (5%) and campus (10%) reduction targets, and requested a public information item listing programs considered for cuts. Staff said a TRE or attendance gains could help but have limited near-term effect.
Georgetown ISD trustees spent their April 7 workshop running hands-on budget modeling and narrowing a list of possible reductions as the district plans its 2025–26 budget. Staff presented scenarios under current law and recommended a minimum 5% reduction for district departments and a 10% reduction for campus budgets while asking principals to identify priorities to protect.
The workshop’s goal, staff said, was to give trustees a clearer sense of how small changes in assumptions drive the district’s revenue and spending outcomes. “Attendance drives everything,” a facilitator said, noting that average daily attendance and how pre-K is counted materially change state funding. Staff pointed to the model’s sensitivity: the demographer/model showed a roughly $2,000,000 difference tied to a 2% attendance swing, meaning each percentage point of attendance is roughly worth about $1 million in state funding in the district’s scenarios.
Trustees and staff discussed the tax…
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