{"id":351962,"date":"2026-06-26T21:58:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351962\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:58:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:58:12","slug":"houston-isd-board-of-managers-ok-fiscal-year-2026-27-budget-with-24-5m-shortfall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/351962\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston ISD board of managers OK fiscal year 2026-27 budget with $24.5M shortfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOn June 25, Houston ISD<\/a>\u2019s board of managers unanimously approved the district\u2019s fiscal year 2026-27 budget<\/a>, which features an estimated $24.5 million shortfall.<\/p>\n

At a glance<\/p>\n

According to June 25 meeting documents<\/a>, the approved FY 2026-27 general fund budget features:<\/p>\n

About $1.99 billion in total revenueAbout $2.015 billion in total expendituresAn expected $24.5 million shortfallCompared to the general fund for the adopted FY 2025-26 budget<\/a>, the FY 2026-27 budget\u2019s general fund includes about:$96.5 million less for instruction expenses$12.1 million more for student transportation costs$10 million less for school leadership expenses$7.9 million less for general administration costs$7.6 million more for instructional leadership costsRemember this?<\/p>\n

During the HISD board of managers\u2019 April 9 meeting, district administrators and campus leaders were granted authority to consider cutting or reorganizing teacher<\/a> and other employee positions for the 2026-27 school year.<\/p>\n

An information request on the number of HISD employees laid off due to 2026-27 budget cuts was pending with the district as of press time June 26.<\/p>\n

Latest update<\/p>\n

HISD\u2019s board of managers also approved<\/a> a FY 2026-27 total tax rate of $0.8421 per $100 valuation, according to June 25 meeting documents. The tax rate is $0.0362 lower than the current total tax rate, which is $0.8783 per $100 valuation.<\/p>\n

However, the preliminary total for taxable property values within HISD’s boundaries for FY 2026-27 increased by 0.24% year over year to $232.62 billion, as previously reported by Community Impact.<\/p>\n

The total tax rate is subject to change once the final certified values are delivered to HISD by the Harris Central Appraisal District in July, as previously reported.<\/p>\n

What it means<\/p>\n

The median value of a home within HISD\u2019s boundaries for FY 2026-27 is $300,473, according to HISD meeting documents. That means a taxpayer with this home value is expected to pay $2,530 in annual taxes to HISD.<\/p>\n

In FY 2025-26, the median home value was $296,941, so a taxpayer with that home value paid $2,608 annually, according to meeting documents.<\/p>\n

Although HISD\u2019s tax rate decreased year over year, homeowners may still see an increase on their tax bill if their home value increased year over year, as previously reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On June 25, Houston ISD\u2019s board of managers unanimously approved the district\u2019s fiscal year 2026-27 budget, which features…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[98074,125378,125382,125381,125380,125379,56,58,1686,57],"class_list":["post-351962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-fiscal-year-2026-27-budget","tag-hisd-budget-2026-27","tag-hisd-fy-2026-27-property-values","tag-hisd-fy-2026-27-tax-rate","tag-hisd-property-values","tag-hisd-tax-rate","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-isd","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351962","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=351962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}