AUSTIN — Texas House and Senate budget writers filed the first drafts of the next state budget Wednesday, calling for more ...

Texas State Rep. Diego Bernal (D-San Antonio) is familiar with and understands the district's challenges. Bernal’s District 123 represents a large amount of SAISD schools.

But due to a feature of Texas’ labyrinthian school finance system known as “recapture” or “Robin Hood,” both have been required to hand over vast sums of money to the state. Over the ...