This might be a controversial opinion, and I am almost certainly uninformed on the Texas public school system as a whole, but from what I've seen they are not hurting for funding. Their high schools and middle schools have sports equipment that would make your local school insanely jealous. Some of the stadiums those kids play in are crazy nice, and they often have their own announcer crew, complete with ways to broadcast the game to multiple platforms.
More of that money should be diverted to the teachers obviously, but overall I think they have plenty of money to go around, from what I've seen.
This article was super interesting to me. Especially the part about how the system wouldn't be able to handle it if everyone tried to turn in their pennies all at once.
But isn't a Stew ultimately another form of Soup?