Claim: "When adjusted for inflation,  per-student spending has remained relatively flat over the past 16 years. Despite that trend, Texas schools in 2017 will receive $381 less per student than they did in 2003."
Fact-check: Celia Israel says per-student education spending flat with 2017 expenditures $381 behind 2003
Verdict: half-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: W. Gardner Selby
Date published: 2016-05-23T00:00:00