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AUSTIN — Landowners, in
censed over property tax increases,
are beating out school children in
the battle for $900 million which the
state contemplates spending on in
creased aid to public education.
And in the h ue and cry over
property tax relief, rural and subur
ban interests are quietly teaming up
to grab the largest per student share
of the state largess.
Proponents of the multimillion
school finance plan to he presented
to legislators at a July special session
say rural and suburban property
owners are too strapped to pay any
higher taxes and need relief most.
Some small rural schools will be un
able to open in September without
additional state money, proponents
say.
The plan expected to be pre
sented to a special session of the
legislature in July will undo many of
the equalizing provisions of the
1975 law intended to alleviate in
equities in educational oppor
tunities for students in rich and poor
districts across the state.
Gov. Dolph Briscoe is supporting
the plan. Speaker Bill Clayton and
92 of the House members are on re
cord favoring it. Lt. Gov. William
P. Hobby says he and a majority of
the Senate will go along with it.
“It’s better than no bill at all,”
Hobby explained.
The proposal runs directly con
trary to the recommendations of the
Texas Advisory Commission on In
tergovernmental Relations (TAGIR)
and the suggestions of experts with
the Texas Research League.
The largest portion of the $900
million outlay will go for reducing
by $318 million the amount local
districts are required to pay toward
costs of minimum education pro
grams.
“Any state attempt to provide un
iform tax relief to all districts — by
assuming all or part of the local
share of the foundation program, for
example — would primarily benefit
wealthy school districts where total
school taxes are already relatively
low,” according to a TAGIR report.
Glenn Ivy, research director for
the private research group, in a pres
entation that drew the governor’s
ire last fall, declared, “Any reduc
tion in the local share reverses the
equalization process, gives the most
additional state aid to rich districts
and threatens another serious legal
challenge to the system.”
Ivy said the biggest reductions
would go to the largest taxpayers in
the wealthiest districts.
In addition to lowering the local
share, the finance plan would re
compute the value of agricultural
land on the basis of its productive
value rather than its market value
and discount the market value of res
idences 20 per cent.
The provision would not change
actual tax assessments levied on
property owners, but would give
rural and especially suburban dis
tricts a big break in calculations of
how much of their school costs they
have to pay and hence, how much
money they have to raise in taxes.
In dollars and cents, the proposal
would mean a $258 increase in state
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funds for each student in a suburban
Harris Gounty district such as Klien
and a $309 per student increase in
Miles, a tiny West Texas town.
Houston, at the other end of the
scale, would get only $69 more state
aid per student, El Paso only $32.
The average increase in aid to the
state’s 96 suburban districts would
be $118 to $126 per student, to 492
rural districts $126 per student, and
to the top seven urban districts $82
per student.
Counting what schools already
receive, the proposed increases
would give urban districts a total of
$651 in annual state aid per student,
compared to $716 to $733 for sub
urban districts and $790 for rural
districts.
Educators point out per student
costs are higher for rural schools and
say suburban districts need special
help because they have little be
sides residential property to tax to
support their education programs.
“They’re the ones that are the fast-
jest growing,” says Raymon Bynum,
associate state education commis
sioner. “That’s where the pupils are
and that’s where the money is
needed because that’s where the tax
base isn’t.”
Statistical comparisons of pro
posed state aid increases to rich and
poor districts indicate sizeable sums
will go to some enormously wealthy
districts.
Rural representatives say the fig
ures are skewered by the use of full
market value of property instead of
agriculture values.
To cite the most glaring contrast,
the proposal would provide $116
additional aid per student to 35 dis
tricts with taxable property worth
$260,000 to $289,999 for each child
compared to $89 extra per student
in 207 districts with $80,000 to
$109,999 worth of property per
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