The Austin ISD Board of Trustees adopted a $1.3 billion budget, which supports 130 schools and approximately 83,000 students, at its June 19 meeting. The budget includes funding to maintain current services and modest investment for academic reinvention projects, and a 1.5 percent districtwide pay raise.
Academic reinvention projects aimed at bringing innovative programs to students are funded through an additional $750,000 allocation in the budget. Projects to be funded include Montessori programming, early college high school expansions and a dyslexia school.