Talk about shrinking.
This slide came from a presentation to the EPISD board relating to combining Basset middle school with their Young Women’s Academy.
According to the slide the combined enrollment of the two schools this year is 1,261 students.
Three years from now they are predicting 971.
Yet they want to build an entirely new facility.
We deserve better
Brutus
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This would be hard to make up but unfortunately it is true.
The folks at EPISD either forgot about a school or they want to slip one into the bond issue.
The bond issue as passed allowed them to either build a new school to replace Basset middle or spend money to renovate it.
They have chosen to build a new school up the road on military property.
According to this slide here was the deal:
Well now they are telling us that they forgot about Armendariz (the “Young Woman’s Academy”). Now they are telling us that it should not be a separate facility just for women but should be combined with the kids from Basset.
If they do this won’t they be combining a high school with a middle school? Also won’t they end up with an all female high school on a coed middle school campus?
It would appear that they are planning to use half of their construction contingency budget to make the changes.
The extra bill is projected to come to $15 million.
“Compact with the voters” my foot.
We deserve better
Brutus
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With EPISD shrinking it makes sense that they will need fewer teachers.
A lot of the recent activity on this blog has been dealing with the displacement of teachers.
We have not heard about real numbers. How many jobs need to be cut?
How many teachers will retire this year?
What will the reductions mean for the newly graduated people coming out of our local universities? Will these people find jobs anyway–just at other schools?
If EPISD was forthcoming about the real numbers maybe their teachers could calm down.
Hopefully some of our readers will help us to understand.
We deserve bettter.
Brutus
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Many of the EPISD employees are afraid to speak up in public.
This note came in from one of them:
Rumor is that tenure/seniority are out the window and principals are getting to “pick” which means if you challenged your principal in any way, you are in danger of getting cut. Each secondary campus estimated to lose 6-10 teachers. The reason they might be getting away with it is because we are a District of Innovation BS.
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This part of a note we received indicates that even the 25 to 1 student to teacher ratio is not accurate.
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