The Tioga ISD trustees approved the budget that will start on July 1 at their Monday meeting.
The biggest differences between the 2024-25 actual budget and the proposed budget adopted Monday for 2025-26 is an increase of a little over $100,000 for instruction, bringing the per pupil expenditure to $7,510; around $43,000 more for special education; a little over $25,000 more for co-curricular and extracurricular activities; around $53,000 more in district operations; and a little over $18,000 more in central administration.
'I do not think that's going to be enough to cover raises, what's been mandated to us from House Bill 2,' Superintendent Josh Ballinger said of the jump in instruction costs. 'A lot of different reasons why, but it's a good start—$550,000 on the instruction side, the majority of that will be toward pay raises. We are not adding any positions.'
