HB 2 Support-Staff Raise Analysis

Statewide funding models and local organizing materials to help Texas AFT explain what HB 2 could mean for school support staff.

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Texas AFT
Date
September 2025
Topic
School finance, staff pay
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After Texas passed HB 2 in 2025, I modeled the funding available for support-staff raises across 1,179 school systems. I did this work for Texas AFT through Data for Public Education.

I checked the allocation formulas, matched staffing records, and documented fallback rules where a district’s data was missing or inconsistent. The deliverables included statewide analyses, audit workbooks, one-pagers, and 35 customized PDFs for local leaders. I also corrected graphics and reports as the review progressed.

The public workbook below examines the Support Staff Retention Allotment, including how adjusted attendance affects the allocation. It is one part of the project. Its paraprofessional staffing counts differ from the broader support-staff counts used for the newsletter’s raise examples.

These are estimates under stated assumptions. A funding allocation is not a guarantee that an employee received a particular raise.

Read Texas AFT’s support-staff analysis

Open the statewide comparison workbook

2025–26 estimates · published workbook

Explore the SSRA comparison

Compare projected Support Staff Retention Allotment funding and the portion attributed to TEA’s adjusted attendance calculation. These are funding estimates, not observed raises.

1179 matching districts

AUSTIN ISD

Estimated SSRA
$2,569,831
From attendance adjustment
$0
Share from adjustment
0.0%
Sparsity-adjusted regular program attendance57,107.35
Paraprofessional FTE used in this workbook1,225.13

The model assigns $45 per adjusted student in average daily attendance. Staffing categories and fallback years matter: this comparison workbook’s paraprofessional counts should not be substituted for the broader support-staff denominator in the published raise examples.

Aldine ISD workbook excerpt (PDF)Download the exhibit dataStatewide comparison workbook