District Services & Subscriptions
TASA members may purchase and/or subscribe to these optional district services and subscriptions, which can help you make an even greater impact on your schools and community. Link to details on those options below.
Optional Services for Districts
Employee Health/Wellness Program
TASA partners with Wondr Health to support school employee wellness in Texas. School districts receive special pricing when they add Wondr Health to their benefits plans — a move that not only helps valued employees lead healthier, happier lives and better serve students, but also potentially reduces health care costs, which have a real impact on districts’ financial bottom line and ability to allocate more resources into district classrooms.
District Data Analytics
TASA, TASB, and TASBO partner with Frontline Education (formerly Forecast5 Analytics) to offer districts an array of analytic tools that can assist in analyzing operational data and performance. State-of-the-art analytics solutions help district leaders tap into their data to make more informed decisions for the benefit of their students and communities. There are strategic, actionable insights waiting for you in your data. Let Frontline Analytics help you access them quickly and easily.
Curriculum Management Audits
The Texas Curriculum Management Audit Center offers several cost-effective audit services to Texas school districts: Curriculum Management Audits™, Small Schools Audits, Program-Specific Audits, and Individual School Audits. The Center also offers the TASA-CMSi Assistance Cadre, which provides research-based, dynamic professional development to help district meet the needs delineated in their Curriculum Audits.
Texas Association of School Board Services
TASA partners with TASB on the following four TASB-related entities and encourages TASA members to consider using these programs in their districts.
The Local Government Purchasing Cooperative was created to increase the purchasing power of government entities and to simplify their purchasing by using a customized online purchasing system, called the BuyBoard. Combining the purchase power of local governments provides members — big and small — the leverage to achieve better pricing on products, equipment, and services they use every day. BuyBoard has delivered the vast economies of scale in purchasing products and services to members since 1998.
Lone Star Investment Pool has served Texas school districts since 1991. There’s strength in numbers: Hundreds of school districts, cities, counties, and public entities participate in the Pool. As a participant-driven organization, we understand your challenges and needs firsthand. Lone Star offers tailored financial solutions and a variety of fund options to help school districts reach their financial goals. We provide participants with the right blend of principal protection, liquidity, diversification, and returns.
The TASB Energy Cooperative was created in 2008 to help governmental entities with the procurement of electricity, transportation fuels, and other types of energy products, commodities, and services. The Cooperative seeks to increase purchasing power and create budget certainty for school districts, colleges, universities, and governmental entities across Texas. Membership in the Cooperative is free and two programs — electricity and fuel — accommodate member energy needs.
Started in 1974, the TASB Risk Management Fund is Texas’ largest provider of risk management services to educational entities, but we are not an insurance company. We are a self-insured, not-for-profit risk pool of more than 1,000 Texas public education organizations collaborating to share risk, protect their resources, and succeed together. Today, our comprehensive coverage solutions include Auto, Cybersecurity, Liability, Property, Unemployment Compensation, Violent Act, and Workers’ Compensation.
Subscription Services for Districts
Accountability Support
TASA partners with lead4ward to provide accountability support to districts and ESCs through accountabilityconnect, a subscription-based district support service with a focus on classroom instruction and student learning that helps campus and district leaders make sense of the complexities surrounding assessment and accountability systems so they can more effectively lead and support sound instructional practices.
Legislative & Public Policy Services
TASA’s Governmental Relations team helps us maintain the visibility and respect needed to effectively advocate for public schools. These efforts require significant time, energy, and resources — beyond that funded by regular membership dues. Your district’s support of TASA’s Legislative and Public Policy Services allows TASA to dedicate the resources needed to monitor and influence legislative and public policy matters on behalf of your district.
Small Schools Network
TASA-member superintendents of districts with fewer than 1,200 members may add a district subscription to the Small Schools Network to their TASA membership. The subscription allows the superintendent and either one or two other district leaders to participate in customized professional development and networking events held in small districts across Texas.
School Transformation Network
TASA-member superintendents may add a district subscription to the School Transformation Network to their TASA membership to allow all TASA members in their districts access to six “power hour” virtual events on finance, staffing, board relations, and more — the systems that support instruction.