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General fund

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The general fund is the district’s main account. It pays to run schools each day.

In Leander. From 2018-19 to 2024-25, spending from it went up. Pay for staff was about 93% of that rise.1

Everyday comparison. It is the household account that pays the everyday bills.

Related terms: reserves, deficit. Read more: money out.

Footnotes

  1. Texas Education Agency, PEIMS actual financial data, 2019 and 2025, general fund (fund 199), day-to-day functions 11–61, objects 61–64: total $320.9 million to $451.8 million; payroll (objects 61xx, including the state’s on-behalf retirement payments) $281.8 million to $404.0 million, up $122.2 million of the $131.0 million rise (93%). Our math. ↩

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