LISD's Wish List for the 2027 Texas Session: Funding, Teacher Pay, and Campus Safety

If you pay LISD property taxes — and most Flower Mound homeowners do — the district's board has now put its asks for the next two years of Texas lawmaking on the record. Lewisville ISD's Board of Trustees approved the district's legislative priorities for the 90th Texas Legislature, the session that convenes Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2027. The board held its regularly scheduled meeting at the LISD Administrative Center on Monday, Nov. 9, the same day bill pre-filing opened.

The board organized its priorities around four areas.

Local decision-making. LISD wants the state to shift toward an improvement-centered accountability model rather than one that leans on punitive interventions. The district is asking lawmakers to stabilize the rating metrics schools are measured against — limiting how often those benchmarks change — and to expand the measures available for grades K–8.

Educator workforce. The district wants to eliminate out-of-pocket testing and certification fees that can steer teacher candidates away from high-need fields. It's also seeking relief from Teacher Retirement System surcharges that make rehiring retired educators harder, and updated statutory minimum pay baselines for teachers, nurses, and counselors.

Campus safety. LISD's ask here is straightforward: state allotments should cover the cost of the armed personnel and physical security improvements the state already requires. The board also wants dedicated grant funding for the computers and internet bandwidth needed to run mandatory online assessments, and scheduling flexibility — with safety funding attached — when campuses serve as polling places on election days.

Operational costs. This category covers the gap between what the state sends and what it actually costs to run schools day to day. The board wants funding formulas adjusted for inflation and fixed utility costs, special education funding brought in line with actual service and evaluation expenses, and bus mileage reimbursements updated to reflect real transit costs.

FloMoBee reported before Monday, Nov. 9 that the board would also hold a required public hearing that evening on the district's Schools FIRST financial rating — the state's financial accountability score for public school districts. That hearing covered the 2025-26 cycle. LISD earned a perfect score of 100 on the preliminary 2025-26 FIRST rating, according to an official LISD campus news post.

The full approved priority list is posted at lisd.net/resources/community/legislative-information/current-session. Any LISD resident can address the board during the public comment period at a future meeting; the schedule and sign-up instructions are at lisd.net/our-district/board-of-trustees/board-meetings.