The Texas Education Agency announced it will extend the current minimum funding guarantee established for the pandemic an additional six weeks. The TEA specified in their update “this limited ‘hold harmless’ extension provides time for the enrollment picture to become more stable, so that schools can wait to make operational and budget adjustments based upon clearer information. This extension ensures that schools will receive their anticipated funding through the first eighteen weeks of the first semester regardless of changes to enrollment or attendance rates due to COVID-19. TEA will address whether further funding adjustments for the second semester are needed based upon information and data gathered between now and January 2021.
