Sense of doom as no one solution will be enough
A troubling new reality has descended on Austin ISD. At school board meetings over the last six weeks, Superintendent Matias Segura has warned that the 2024-25 budget deficit – currently projected to be at least $78 million, even after $30 million of cuts to central office operations – can’t be fixed through more budget cuts. The superintendent has said the district needs a ground-up reassessment of its “workflows,” and that it needs to “work differently.
But as with the budget cuts, the additional money from the VATRE would only ease the current crisis, not solve it. Board President Arati Singh called attention to this by highlighting the district’s deficit projections for the 2025-26 school year. With a VATRE, that year’s deficit is projected to be $51 million. Without it, it’s projected to be $67 million.
, the district and its employees continue to push for a VATRE. During the public comment portion of Thursday’s meeting, members of Education Austin, the union that represents AISD’s teachers and staff, voiced strong support for the proposal. That’s perhaps in part because the district and union have an agreement to use $17 million of the revenue a VATRE would generate to provide a modest raise in salary – what both groups are calling a market rate adjustment – for certain AISD employees.
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