Fewer students, fewer employees, less cost

June 8, 2018

Dan Wever makes a good point with this note that he evidently sent to the school board members:

Trustees,
Before you give the El Paso Taxpayers false information please look at your own figures for the last 5 years of State money per student.  These are Texas Education Figures.
The EPISD gets paid by the State for educating the students that attend their schools.  You do not lose 30 million dollars of revenue because of decreased enrollment, you just do not get paid for students you do not have.  Also, how much money is it supposed to cost to educate students that you do not have.
You need a forensic auditor!
Regards,
dw
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That’s a good question–“how much money is it supposed to cost to educate students that you do not have”
We deserve better
Brutus

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If you have too much, get some more

June 7, 2018

Would someone explain to me why EPISD actually needed a $668 million bond issuance in order to  “right-size” (their words, not mine) the district when nearly 30% of their existing schools are operating at 65% of capacity or lower?

They knew these schools were underpopulated when they asked for the bond money.

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Local baloney maker

June 6, 2018

EPISD announced that they are going to close some schools that are underpopulated.

The school board president is telling us that they need to do this to save money.  In the same conversation:

“He said each school closure could save the district more than $1 million per year, adding that the funding could be used for employee pay and technology. “

How are they cutting costs when they plan to turn around and  spend the money on payroll and computers?

Further he evidently said:

“the district has “exhausted all other efforts to cut costs,” saying the district slashed $10 million from central office last year.”

All other efforts

The only one exhausted here is me and that’s from listening to nonsense like this.

There is still an enormous amount of waste that should be cut.

We deserve bettr

Brutus

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Expanding faster than the galaxy

June 4, 2018

Why is the city working so hard to finance urban sprawl?

We learned the other day that EPISD has decided to close underpopulated  schools in order to save money.

Evidently they have around 30 schools that are running at 65% of capacity or below.  According to the EPISD website they have 94 schools.  That means that nearly 30% of their schools are one-third empty.

Wouldn’t encouraging infill projects help us fill the schools and reduce the need for additional roads, utilities, fire stations and all of the other things that the city does.

Won’t the school district end up having to build new schools to serve the new areas?  Won’t that cost us even more money?

We deserve better

Brutus

 

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Facts about our schools

June 2, 2018

A loyal reader sent this in:

Not sure if you have seen this resource – probably more data than you can use!

https://schools.texastribune.org/

Brutus

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