{"id":366087,"date":"2026-07-09T00:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366087\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:07:10","slug":"the-long-view-on-texas-schools-a-new-tasb-paper-on-enrollment-closures-and-what-comes-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/366087\/","title":{"rendered":"The Long View on Texas Schools: A New TASB Paper on Enrollment, Closures, and What Comes Next\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas House Committee on Public Education spent much of its first interim hearing<\/a> taking up a broad assignment from Speaker Dustin Burrows: study the current state of public education in Texas, including \u201cenrollment trends pertaining to the stability of the school finance system.\u201d Behind that charge is a question worth asking now \u2014 what do today’s enrollment shifts mean for the future of Texas schools? It is the question at the heart of TASB’s newest position paper.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome Cuts Don\u2019t Heal: The Permanent Cost of Short-Term Thinking on Texas Schools,\u201d<\/a> published in our txEDInsights series, argues that the long-range stewardship Texas already expects of local school boards should also guide the state-level decisions that shape enrollment, capacity, and school finance. Enrollment fell by nearly 76,000 students this year, districts are consolidating campuses and cutting programs, and at least 130 public campuses have been slated for closure or consolidation over the past two years. As the paper puts it, some of those decisions cannot be easily undone even if circumstances change.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The paper lands squarely within the committee\u2019s interim charge \u2014 making it a useful frame for the conversations happening at the Capitol and in communities across the state. It\u2019s one more way for board members, administrators, and local leaders to engage with an issue that will define Texas public schools for years to come.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Share it with your board and your local delegation, and let TASB Governmental Relations know<\/a> how enrollment shifts are affecting your district \u2014 your experience helps inform our advocacy as the committee\u2019s interim work continues.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Read the Paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas House Committee on Public Education spent much of its first interim hearing taking up a broad…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-366087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366087","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=366087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}