{"id":357701,"date":"2026-07-01T20:13:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357701\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T20:13:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T20:13:47","slug":"plano-isd-officials-project-44-8m-budget-shortfall-for-fy-2026-27-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357701\/","title":{"rendered":"Plano ISD officials project $44.8M budget shortfall for FY 2026-27 | Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThese are, by law, things that we need to provide our students to be successful, and there just literally is not enough funding,\u201d board Secretary Katherine Chan Goodwin said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1782341327_165_thumbnail.jpeg\" width=\"100%\" alt=\"chart visualization\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Reeves added that the district has seen significant growth in costs for employee compensation, utilities, contracted services, insurance premiums, software costs, instructional materials and fuel. She said employee compensation costs have increased by $76.3 million since 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis growing gap between revenue and expenditure growth places increasing pressure on our district\u2019s finances,\u201d Reeves said.<\/p>\n<p>Looking ahead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThese are, by law, things that we need to provide our students to be successful, and there just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[19044,160,162,2336,124481,161,99149,124483,124482,124484],"class_list":["post-357701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-city-of-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-isd","tag-plano-isd-budget","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-schools","tag-school-funding-plano","tag-schools-in-plano","tag-underfunded-schools-plano"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357701","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=357701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}