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[State] Texas [Score] 8 [Charter Law Description] 
Texas law provides a funding formula for calculating the funding for open-enrollment charter schools. This funding formula, however, results in inequitable funding for open enrollment charter schools. The law is silent on funding for district-authorized schools. Texas law specifies that open-enrollment charter schools are entitled to funds that are available to school districts from the state agency or the state commissioner in the form of grants or other discretionary funding unless the statute authorizing the funding explicitly provides that open-enrollment charter schools are not entitled to the funding. This law doesn’t apply to district-authorized charters. In a national study of charter school funding (Statistical Analysis of Texas Charter School Facilities), Texas charter schools were receiving on average $8,860 per pupil, while traditional public schools would have received $10,499 for those students. As a result, the state's charter schools were receiving $1,639 per pupil—or 15 percent—less than what the traditional public schools would have received for those students. This analysis reveals continued inequities for operational, categorical, and capital funding (see Component #19 for information on capital issues).
18. Equitable Operational Funding and Equal Access to All State and Federal Categorical Funding | National Alliance for Public Charter Schools
Charter Law Description