Texas district will continue to seek state funding overhaul

Wimberley district has backed off threat to withhold payments to state

Feb. 14, 2008

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A day after stepping back from the brink in their refusal to make state-mandated "Robin Hood" payments, Wimberley (Texas) school officials are pledging to keep fighting the state's school funding system, either in the courts or the Legislature.
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EARLIER: A reluctant Wimberley (Texas) school board has backed down on its threat to withhold its "Robin Hood" payments from the state, and has voted to send the funds by the end of the week. The penalty for withholding payment could have been a possible forced consolidation of Wimberley with a neighboring district. The board's capitulation came after a parade of parents and students urged the board to not let their schools be merged with another district.
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FROM JANUARY 2008: The Wimberley (Texas) school board voted is planning to withhold a payment of about $3.1 million in local property taxes that was supposed to be sent to the state under the share-the-wealth school finance law passed in 1993. The first payment this year is due Feb. 15. State Education Commissioner Robert Scott and the Texas Education Agency have remained firm that if the situation can't be resolved, Scott will be required to take steps to dissolve the 2,000-student school district and annex it to a neighboring district.
Click here to read The Dallas Morning News article.