With a $33 billion dollar budget surplus hanging overhead, the regular legislative session started with promises to increase teacher pay and school funding but ended with none, now leading some public schools with budget concerns as they head into the next school year without an increase to the basic allotment.
In a district-wide email sent Tuesday morning to families, Burnet CISD said it is facing a $1.3 million dollar deficit for the upcoming 2023-2024 school year. This news was shared in a district-wide letter written by Burnet CISD Superintendent Keith McBurnett.
“The Board of Trustees and Administration are working collaboratively to address the budget deficit,” he wrote. “Difficult choice[s] are going to have to be made, when they shouldn’t have to be made.”