The new funding system, which comes with a $683 million allocation in the state budget, takes effect Sept. 1. Texas community colleges currently rely on tuition and property taxes for the majority of their funding, according to a report last year from the Texas Commission on Community College Finance.
The commission — which included academics, lawmakers and policy experts — was tasked with recommending a new funding system for the state’s 50 community college districts. They found that the old model led to wide disparities in per-student funding, in part because of differences in property taxes and values across the state.
