According to the Times, the Ysleta Independent School District board has spent more than $30,000 in legal fees trying to fight a law that requires them to make certain financial disclosures.
If I recall correctly the law only applies to school board members in the El Paso area. Evidently our legislature thought that the law would help clear up corruption problems in our local school districts.
Amazingly it does not seem to apply to our un-elected board of managers at EPISD.
Principles
We don’t know what the board’s motivation is for fighting this law.
From my perspective the board members should have chosen to fight this law with their own money if they object to it. They could resign if they find it to be a law that they do not want to obey. They could hire their own lawyers if they think that it is a law that should be changed.
Spending this money that could have been spent educating children seems selfish to me.
I also wonder what the nature of the legal services was that made the bill add up to so much.
Now we see both city council and a school board spending our money to deny us information that we are legally entitled to.
We deserve better
Brutus
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