Jorge H. Allen
The Comptroller’s Oct. 1 count shows 3,312 TEFA students living in Dallas ISD, second only to Houston ISD, with Plano, Richardson, Northwest and Frisco up about 50% since July. Here are the North Texas district numbers and what they do and do not measure.
Collin College’s single $600 million bond measure would expand workforce and academic buildings and add campuses in Anna and Royse City. The state-required voter document estimates up to $20.18 a year per $100,000 homestead, while the college expects a flat rate.
LEWISVILLE, Lewisville ISD trustees adopted a 2026-27 property tax rate of $1.0778 per $100 of valuation on Aug. 27, 2026, the lowest total the district says it has set since at least 1999, while still projecting a $7.3 million operating deficit driven largely by staff pay and health-insurance costs. The maintenance and operations (M&O) piece … Read more
FORT WORTH , Fort Worth ISD’s appointed board of managers held the 2026-27 property tax rate at $1.029099 per $100 of taxable value, matching the district’s voter-approval ceiling while the legally adopted budget already shows a $49.8 million gap between revenues and expenditures. That rate sits just under the no-new-revenue figure of $1.029687 on the … Read more
PLANO , Plano ISD locked in a 2026-27 property tax rate of $1.03275 per $100 of taxable value while running a general fund plan that spends $691.6 million against $634.6 million in revenue and other resources, leaving a $44.8 million operating shortfall the district expects to cover with transfers and fund balance. That pairing (a … Read more
COPPELL — Coppell ISD trustees adopted a 2026–27 property tax rate of $0.9857 per $100 of assessed value on Aug. 24, 2026, a $0.0038 increase from the prior year, while approving a general fund budget that still runs a $3.5 million deficit after the district trimmed about $4.7 million from last year’s gap. The district’s … Read more
PROSPER, Texas – Prosper ISD trustees unanimously adopted a Prosper ISD tax rate of $1.2011 per $100 of taxable value for the 2026-27 school year at their Aug. 24, 2026, board meeting, according to the district’s official board recap. The new total is $0.013 lower than last year’s $1.2141 and is the lowest posted Prosper … Read more
The EMS ISD VATRE on Nov. 3, 2026, asks Eagle Mountain-Saginaw ISD voters in northwest Tarrant County whether to ratify a $1.2857 per $100 tax rate that the school board set in August, a ballot measure that would add about $6.16 million in maintenance and operations revenue for the 2026–27 school year. The official Notice … Read more
RICHARDSON — Richardson ISD trustees adopted a 2026–27 property tax rate of $1.1319 per $100 of valuation on Sept. 18, 2026, a $0.0267 increase from last year driven by higher debt-service costs for Bond 2025 even as the district cut its Maintenance and Operations rate to the lowest level in 42 years. The district’s official … Read more
DALLAS — Dallas ISD moved from ballot victory to campus-level design work on Sept. 26, 2026, hosting a BIG Design Charrette at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts to start delivering the voter-approved $6.2 billion Bond 2026 program. The Hub, the district’s official newsroom, described the Saturday event as the … Read more