Texas Border Business
WASHINGTON – Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) today announced $90,664,238 in preliminary Fiscal Year 2019 (FY19) Title I formula allocations funds for Local Educational Agencies (LEA) in the Rio Grande Valley. The U.S. Department of Education will release final totals in June 2019.
Title I funding assists schools in their efforts to provide students with fair, equal, and significant opportunities to obtain a high-quality education and reach state academic achievement standards and academic assessment goals.
“It is critical to have adequate funding for comprehensive educational programs in our schools,” Congressman Gonzalez said. “Every child in the 15th District of Texas deserves access to every possible educational resource, and an opportunity to succeed. It is my hope that these federal funds will put us one step closer to achieving educational goals and objectives at school districts across the Rio Grande Valley.”
The following preliminary allocations have been provided to LEA’s in the Rio Grande Valley:
•Donna ISD: $14,128,682
•Edcouch-Elsa ISD: $3,982,435
•Edinburg ISD: $18,863,369
•Hidalgo ISD: $1,535,465
•La Villa ISD: $362,718
•McAllen ISD: $14,453,290
•Mercedes ISD: $4,040,070
•Monte Alto ISD: $643,246
•Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD: $17,771,446
•Sharyland ISD: $3,041,499
•Valley View ISD: $2,317,240
•Weslaco ISD: $9,524,778
The U.S. Department of Education (ED) expects to release final allocations in June of this year. Final numbers will differ from the preliminary allocations because of updates to the annually collected counts of children in locally operated institutions for neglected or delinquent children, in foster homes, and in families above the Census poverty line that receive assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (non-Census formula children data) and to LEA finance data used in the Education Finance Incentive Grants formula. There may be additional differences if a State were to report revisions to its State Per-Pupil Expenditure (SPPE) data.
