The funding mechanism known as Robin Hood has existed in Texas for about 40 years. Property-wealthy school districts are required to send tax dollars back to the state so they can, in theory, be distributed to districts in need. Keller ISD trustees have been asking the state to show them what it is doing with the tax dollars collected through recapture. They say the state is not giving them any answers.
Fed up with the state's school funding mechanism known as Robin Hood, Keller ISD's school board said they're not going to play along anymore. Keller ISD says the vote to defy the state is a last resort after it already asked lawmakers for an increase in the per-student basic allotment and to know where their recapture money was actually going. "The state is sitting on a multi-billion-dollar surplus.
Keller ISD trustees have been asking the state to show them what it is doing with the tax dollars collected through recapture. They say the state is not giving them any answers. "That district has spent over 200 million in three years sending recapture money back to Austin. Are their kids in that district not worth any of that money?" said Keller ISD School Board President Charles Randklev. "The 2.5 million we sent back to Austin two weeks ago, are our kids not worth that money?"
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