Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas No funds may be spent for central office employees administrative expenses or construction. Therefore there is no question that these dollars will be spent in the classroom to support the teachers who dedicate their lives to our children including mine and the future of our state said State Rep. Jason Isaac (R-Dripping Springs) earlier today regarding the $6 million dollars that will be distributed to school districts across Hays Caldwell and Blanco counties.
The money is part of the federal education funds that have recently been made available to Texas.
This money will be crucial in helping to save teachers jobs and supplement school district budgets in the midst of our current shortfall said Rep. Isaac.
The project period for the federal grant is August 10 2010 to September 30 2012. The money has been the subject of much controversy over the past year when Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) passed an amendment that would have prevented these funds from coming to our state.
Rep. Isaac and several other conservative legislators personally called on Congress to release the money back to the Texas taxpayers.
The following is a list of school districts in Texas House District 45 and the
amount that they will receive from education job funds:
- Blanco ISD : $199401
- Dripping Springs ISD : $673216
- Hays CISD : $2424526
- Johnson City ISD : $164745
- Lockhart ISD : $792399
- Luling ISD : $251642
- Prairie Lea ISD : $47212
- San Marcos CISD : $1192565
- Wimberley ISD : $330744
