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Trustees press consultants on homeschooling and charter impacts after PASA presentation
Summary
Trustees questioned how the district can measure homeschooling and the effect of alternative educational opportunities (AEOs). PASA said the state does not track homeschooling reliably and acknowledged TIFA/grant programs and charter growth create uncertainty for capture rates.
Trustees used the PASA presentation to press for clearer counts on homeschooling and the role of alternative educational opportunities in future enrollment forecasts.
"We have a huge appetite for that to be looked at very carefully by the state or at least accounted for," Chris Poole said when trustees asked whether the state could do more to track homeschooling. Poole told trustees PASA relies on TEA and appraisal-district data and must use indirect methods (birth data, American Community Survey estimates) to estimate homeschooled children.
Trustees also raised concerns about TIFA/TIFA-funded private-school applications: Poole said more than 2,500 TIFA applications were filed by CCISD residents, 658 were granted, but only 283 of those granted came from students who had previously attended public school — leaving uncertainty about how many students will leave the district in coming years. Board members asked staff to provide appendix- and subdivision-level breakout data so the trustees can evaluate where capture loss is most likely to occur.
