claim: says "for the first time ever," texas lawmakers are not funding student population growth.
author: wendy davis
evidence_1: dec 18, 2018 ... straus said funding can come from an improving texas economy that is ...  increase in public education funding, that's above enrollment growth, ... said he  expects the texas legislature to tackle school finance when it reconvenes in  2019. ... “the budget document you will see right after the first of the year is ...
evidence_2: aug 5, 2011 ... says "for the first time ever," texas lawmakers are not funding ... kouri obliged: " funding enrollment growth means that if you have ... wendy davis, d-fort worth,  who said that "for the first time, we are not funding student population ... watson  suggested that when lawmakers come back into session in 2013, ...
evidence_3: dec 20, 2018 ... for the first time in decades, the right people, have the right focus to overhaul  school finance - gov. ... system as it is, that's not an outcomes-based solution,"  said huberty. ... most public school funding derives from local property taxes. ... to  do for a growing population of texas citizens and students,” he said.
evidence_4: though school districts are creations of the state, texas lawmakers have not ....  this principle is the foundation of the texas supreme court's first school funding  .... the state of texas has ever spent in the history of the state on a per-student  basis ... pierce said texas has a good funding structure, but over time, the state  has ...
evidence_5: may 3, 2013 ... in hutto, a small city in central texas, any student who lived within a two-mile ... in  the last legislative session, lawmakers cut $5.4 billion from the texas education  budget. ... pierce said there is inequity because the state does not fund all ... last  year, for the first time, the state did not fund enrollment growth.