SCHOOL FINANCE

Increase Title 1 funding and include Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirements for state legislatures to keep pace with inflation and enrollment growth:

• Boost the federal share of IDEA funding from 15% to statutorily authorized 40%
• Provide the necessary funding for USDA to continue the Summer Feeding (SFSP) program for the 2020-2021 school year, allowing all meal types to be distributed to eligible students in non-congregate locations such as playgrounds, bus stops, residential locations, and community locations

STUDENT EQUITY

• Provide additional funding to address the digital divide and to ensure connectivity for all students who need remote instruction
• Additional funding for school safety efforts to protect students and faculty
• End diversion of federal K-12 funds from public schools to private or religious schools
• Ensure a full and accurate Census count 

COVID CONSIDERATIONS

• Provide school districts with resources and flexibility to address staff shortages, attendance variations, health and safety issues, mental health issues, and truancy issues
• Grant liability protection for all good-faith efforts to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of students and faculty

Quentrella D. Joyce | qjoyce@houstonisd.org | Yates High School

Did you know that HISD used to have an Alamo Elementary School? Or that one of its elementary schools is named for a Congressional Medal of Honor recipient? How about that, one of the oldest HISD high schools originally opened as the Houston Academy in 1878 and underwent five subsequent name changes before being chosen to recognize one of the most colorful figures in Texas history?

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