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Hon. J. W. Edgar, page 3 (M-480)
Education Code).
"The Foundation School Program is thus financed
by an equalized local school district effort under
the specified formula, distribution of state and
county available school funds on the basis of the
number of scholastics, and allocation to each school
district of a sum of State money sufficient to fi-
nance the remaining cost of the program in that dis-
trict," 51 Tex.Jur.2d, pp. 550-551, Schools, Sect.
180.
School districts are authorized by law to expend money
for numerous types of goods and services. The employment of an
attendance officer adds one additional service paid for by school
funds. We find nothing in the statutes that would indicate that
such expenditure out of the county available school funds would
decrease the amount of the county available funds taken into
account in allocating state funds.
Section 16.71 of the Texas Education Code provides that
the Foundation School Program shall be financed from several
sources, including county available school funds, and that the
"remaining costs" of the Program were to be realized from state
monies. In computing the latter, the county available funds are
first taken into account. There is no provision in the law
exempting county available funds budgeted for an attendance of-
ficer from being taken into account in determining the "remaining
costs" to be paid by the State.
In Article 2827e, provision is made to expend certain
funds for vocational education out of the county available fund
and it is specifically provided that "such school districts shall
not be held accountable for or charged with county available school
funds" in determining eligibility for State funds. No such proviso
is made for the school attendance officer expense. We are per-
suaded that if the Legislature had intended that the same rule be
applied concerning attendance officers, it would have so stated.
It is therefore our opinion, based upon an analysis of
the operation of the Foundation School Program, that the various
school districts in Ellis County would be charged with the county
available funds, used in employing the attendance officer, in
determining the amount of state minimum Foundation funds that the
school districts would receive from the state.-2394-
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Texas. Attorney-General's Office. Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-480, text, September 25, 1969; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth269704/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.