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Gov. Greg Abbott On Wednesday, signed a bill providing around 8.5 billion dollars in new funding for Texas public schools, offering rescue to districts for teachers and support staff, operational expenditure, special education, preparation of educators, learning early childhood and campus security.
New dollars in Bill 2that legislators have nicknamed “historic” because it marks the largest unique investment in public education in recent memory, will arrive after years Stagnant funding. This includes 2023, when the state has given schools targeted money in areas such as school security, but left billions more on the table due to political spin -offs on good private schools.
Abbott signed a $ 1 billion vouchers program in law last month. The legislature granted final approval to the proposal to finance public schools of 231 pages in the last days of the legislative session of 2025, which ended on Monday.
“It is time that we, the Texans, collectively redesign our gaze in Texas classified number one to educate the children of the Grand State of Texas,” said Abbott on Wednesday during a signature ceremony of the bill at the Salado Middle School, a campus located north of Austin where he was surrounded by joyful students, educators and legislators.
“Bill 2 of Chamber 2 takes substantial measures to achieve this objective,” added the governor. Abbott also told journalists that he had no regrets about two years ago – when he promised not to approve a major bill for school financing if the legislators were not adopted good – saying that this year’s laws are “much superior” than the measures previously on the table.
HB 2 will largely enter on September 1. Certain parts of the law will take effect next year.
School officials and public education defenders welcomed new funding while warning That the new dollars are far from grasping the districts of inflation, which has increased their costs from the Pandemic COVID-19. The HB 2, they say, will not cure all the difficulties which look at public education opposite, including the budgetary deficits of several million dollars and the school closures.
Although the legislation does not give schools as much flexibility in spending as they hoped, this facilitates targeted investments in the fields that legislators think that the Texas public education system will do the Texas education system better.
Here is a ventilation of some key arrangements.
