{"id":283330,"date":"2026-05-07T20:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283330\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T20:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T20:27:36","slug":"plano-isd-anticipates-44m-budget-shortfall-next-fiscal-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/283330\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano ISD anticipates $44M budget shortfall next fiscal year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPlano ISD<\/a> is anticipating a $44 million deficit budget for fiscal year 2026-27, Chief Financial Officer Courtney Reeves said during a May 6 board of trustees meeting.<\/p>\n

The big picture<\/p>\n

District staff is expecting around $561.9 million in expenditures and $517.1 million in net revenue. PISD\u2019s expenditures are projected to decrease by $3.99 million from last fiscal year, but revenues are expected to decrease by more than $14.5 million.<\/p>\n

Reeves attributed that decrease largely to declining enrollment and recapture, a program that reallocates tax revenue from property-rich districts to those the state deems property-poor.<\/p>\n

PISD is expected to lose 2,008 students next school year, which will cut into state funding determined by enrollment. The district\u2019s recapture bill is expected to be $132.54 million, a $14 million increase from FY 2025-26.<\/p>\n

Diving deeper<\/p>\n

PISD\u2019s department budget is set to rise by 0.2% from 2025-26 to the next fiscal year. That\u2019s the lowest year-over-year increase since FY 2021-22.<\/p>\n

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The largest areas of saving for the district will come from decreases of $535,663 and $508,975 in custodial costs and in-school support service costs, respectively, according to district documents. Reeves said counseling and guidance services previously provided by an outside firm will now be delivered directly by district staff.<\/p>\n

Reeves also said the district will have savings from decreased employee travel and the use of alternative funding sources.<\/p>\n

PISD is anticipating higher costs for summer school, as programs will now be offered at three high schools instead of just one to \u201cimprove accessibility,\u201d Reeves said.<\/p>\n

The district will also spend more on communications and marketing to increase efforts to recruit and retain students. Reeves said staff anticipates a return on investment for that spending.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead<\/p>\n

Deputy Superintendent Johnny Hill said that PISD has run a deficit balance \u201cfor years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve had a deficit for years, but I would not call that a structural deficit,\u201d he said. \u201cA structural deficit means we have to change the structure of our budget accordingly.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added that for the first time in the last five or six years, staff is needing to consider significant changes.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re needing to look at the actual structural components of our budgets and make some significant changes going forward if we continue to lose students at the rate that we have,\u201d Hill said. \u201cTo make significant inroads into the structural deficit, you eventually need to look at programs and staffing. … Our percentage of decrease in students we\u2019ve almost mirrored exactly in our decrease in teaching staff. It\u2019s the support stuff that we would need to go back and look at.\u201d<\/p>\n

PISD\u2019s board approved the district’s new compensation plan<\/a> in March and is expected to adopt the final 2026-27 budget in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Plano ISD is anticipating a $44 million deficit budget for fiscal year 2026-27, Chief Financial Officer Courtney Reeves…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2050,43748,160,162,2336,161,96873,25538],"class_list":["post-283330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-budget","tag-deficit","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-isd","tag-plano-news","tag-recapture","tag-tax-rate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}