Interim Charge: Review and make recommendations that address the state's facility infrastructure needs for public schools, ensuring that funding remains stable, reliable and equitable. Examine the need for funding adjustments for factors that affect the need for facilities, such as fast growth, age and condition of facilities, adequacy of space, construction and land costs, and concentration of students requiring smaller class sizes. Assess the impact on property taxpayers of "rolling forward" the Existing Debt Allotment (EDA) each session and the change in biennial appropriations for the Instructional Facilities Allotment (IFA).

Invited Testimony

• John McGeady, Legislative Budget Board Public Education Team
• Lisa Dawn-Fisher, Deputy Associate Commissioner School Finance, Texas Education Agency
• Karen Rue, Ed.D., Superintendent of Northwest ISD, and Chair, Fast Growth School Coalition
• Wayne Pierce, Ed.D., Executive Director, Equity Center
• Peggy M. Venable, State Director of Americans for Prosperity, Member of the Texas Center for Education Research Board
• Phil Montgomery, Chairman, Uplift Education

Additional Written Testimony

• Rick Bankston, Frisco ISD
• Lesli Cathey, LBB School Reviews

Public Testimony

• Paul Colbert
• Wesley Duncan
• George Torres
• Laura Wheat