While there’s still time this year for Texas lawmakers to carve out legislation to raise teachers’ pay, educators remain disappointed that they will enter the school year uncertain about what those raises could be.
“It is very frustrating because we have such high hopes as educators,” Dallas Independent School District Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde said Tuesday at a Texas Tribune event in Austin. “Most of the superintendents I know have to go into deficit budgets in order to be able to provide any kind of raises.”
Despite entering the regular session with a record $32.7 billion surplus for Texas, legislators failed to reach an agreement on teacher pay increases.