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Edcouch‑Elsa ISD review finds attendance audit errors and warns of six‑figure funding shortfall
Summary
A district attendance audit corrected 1,005 first‑semester coding errors and highlighted a first‑semester ADA shortfall that the superintendent said equates to a roughly $309,818 budget gap; the report also estimated a larger baseline funding impact of about $1.7 million tied to 21,167 recorded absences.
Edcouch‑Elsa ISD trustees were presented with an attendance audit and funding analysis at their Jan. 26 regular meeting, and district leaders warned that coding and absenteeism problems are costing the district significant state funding.
The superintendent (identified in the transcript as Speaker 3) told trustees the district’s ADA budgeting goal was 3,706 but first‑semester ADA came in at 3,656.15, a difference the presentation put at $309,818 for budgeting purposes. The same presentation reported 21,167 absences for the first semester; the superintendent said that…
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