Texas is large, diverse, and enjoys a growing economy. We need a public school finance system that gives all students a fair shot, regardless of where they live. Though it is the state's responsibility to provide a substantial share of school funding, Texas relies heavily on local property taxes to fund our schools. Because property values vary greatly from one community to the next, some districts are better able to generate funds to support education than other districts. In 1993, after several decades of lawsuits challenging the inherent inequities created by the use of property values to determine school funding, the Legislature implemented Chapter 41 of the Texas Education Code, a system known as recapture. The goal of the recapture system is to help make public school funding more equitable between school districts. Recapture is often referred to as "Robin Hood" because wealthy districts send locally collected property tax revenue to the state to distribute to lower-wealth districts and charter schools. Recapture is the primary tool we have for equalizing disparate property wealth across this large and growing state.