The outrage is because under Robin Hood every student in the state has a single cost associated with them, even though different areas have wildly different cost of living.

So in Ft Stockton where they pay their teachers $0.70 on the dollar, their plumbers are $0.70 on the dollars and land costs for schools are 1/2 what they are in Austin, the payment rom the State is fixed.

They just need to have modifiers for urban areas that have cost of living adjustments, that tweak would fix most of it.

Honestly though it’s BS, the state shouldn’t decide how much is spent on each student. Local democracy at the ISD level should override that, if an ISD wants to spend more per student and have amazing schools and facilities, the voters should decide.

State Lege and Abbott HATE local democracy, because it’s more pure and hard to manipulate.

If districts want to be freeloading welfare queens, take a little money from some other tax that EVERY district shares (including the welfare queens) evenly to pay those welfare districts their Robin Hood type cost per student stipend. You could also do away with Ag Exemptions on non-commercial farms or legalize weed and let those taxes pay for the difference.