More Information

• The Cost of College: How Texas Students and Families are Financing College Education
• Testimony: Combating the Student Loan Burden
• Texas Funding for Schools Much Lower Than Before Recession

Analysis of Senate Bill 4 (Education Bill)

SB 4, the school finance bill, directs nearly $4 billion in additional state funding to public education. The bill targets four areas of the public education system: teacher salaries, facilities financing, property tax rates, and social promotion/early childhood programs. This Policy Page touches only those developments in school finance. Others, contained in the general state budget (HB1) are not described here.