Houston district will have to pay state under Robin Hood system

For the first time, the Houston school district expects that it will have to pay several million dollars to the state of Texas under the so-called Robin Hood funding system. The oddity involving the state's largest district is prompting renewed calls for changes to the state's' complex school funding laws, which require property-wealthy districts to share money with poorer ones. The district projects that it will owe $3.7 million to the state next year. That would be only a sliver of the district's $1.5 billion budget, but many educators contend the funding system is flawed when a big-city district that serves mostly low-income children is forced to give up money.

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