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EPISD–classroom conditions

September 12, 2017

This note was posted as a comment but deserves some more attention:

how can our students in EPISD be expected to do good on the STAAR test when it is above 90° in the classrooms.

Red pen edit:
How can our students in EPISD be expected to do well on the STAAR test when it is above 90° in the classrooms?

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Property tax ranking

September 8, 2017

El Paso had the 3rd highest property tax rate (considering homestead allowances) among the nation’s 50 largest cities for taxes paid in 2016.

Our rate was 2.58%.

Milwaukee Wisconsin had the second highest rate at 2.669%.

With the community college increase of 4%, the city at 5%, EPISD at 6% and the county hospital at 6.4% it looks like we may sink to second place.

We deserve better

Brutus

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EPISD–an issue in the congressional campaign

September 6, 2017

It is unfortunate that EPISD has become an issue in the upcoming congressional election.

Like most of our readers, we don’t know the details relating to alleged wrongdoing at the board and employee levels.

If bad acts have been committed why is it that these people have waited until now to speak up?

Should we now expect to start learning about problems over at the county?

We deserve better

Brutus

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EPISD–superintendent’s pay raises

September 3, 2017

This came in from Dan Wever:

Brutus, just wanted to show you these e-mails about the Superintendent’s 4% raise this July. Right after the board approved the teachers raise I sent his contract raise which was and is the same as the Teachers 4% of $348,825.51 which is over 13K. Notice in this e-mail Dori said he was forgoing this raise because of the raise he got in June.(15%-45K). They had an agenda item on the 2pm meeting that was removed by the Superintendent and I think the contract would have to be addressed if any changes are made. She already knew it the contract had been pulled by Cabrera I am told. I can find no record of any work on his contract and believe that he did get the 13K raise plus cashed in his extra vacation days by July 31 as required by policy. I asked Dori about it the next week but she was no longer president and did not even answer me. I also asked new president Hatch and he did not even respond. I have seen no other information about the contract.

Regards,

On Friday, June 23, 2017 2:51 PM, Dan Wever <fwever1@att.net> wrote:

Dori, it is hard to be positive when you disagree with almost every action taken by the board. I tried to talk to you about K-8 and found a brick wall. You seem to have forgotten that educators spent hundreds of hours changing to middle school concept. Closing schools will not save the district any money unless you cut back on employees.

You know Dori the one area nobody ever seemed to check on concerning Garcia was what he did to the salary schedules for the administrators. They have been overpaid millions of dollars and that is the main reason there has not been enough money for the teachers. Dr Wachtel number crunched the teacher salaries for so many years and then he retires and you hire him back as a consultant to continue doing the same thing. Would you like to see some examples of what I am talking about the salaries? Speaking of salaries did Cabrera get his raise or not? I would think his contract would have to be amended and if you did not even look at it don’t see how it could be changed.

I cannot be positive when everything is going south as far as I can see. I guess the Education Reform people are happy as they got to take over a whole district. Regards,

On Thursday, June 22, 2017 12:08 PM, DORI FENENBOCK <dfenenbock@episd.org> wrote:

You may get a better response with a more positive approach. You must remember the countless hours you spent selflessly on behalf of our children. We all do our best.

Every Student Prepared

On Jun 22, 2017, at 10:37 AM, Dan Wever <fwever1@att.net> wrote:

Since you guys seem to be very concerned with public opinion a good time would have been when you gave him the 15% raise.

“With this 15% raise the board of trustees and Superintendent Cabrera have agreed that he will not accept his contract raise for next year.”

It would not do anything for me, but there are a lot of ignorant people out there.

dw

On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 9:49 PM, DORI FENENBOCK <dfenenbock@episd.org> wrote:

When and where?

Every Student Prepared

On Jun 21, 2017, at 9:19 PM, Dan Wever <fwever1@att.net> wrote:

Why was this not reported before?

dw

On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 8:53 PM, DORI FENENBOCK <dfenenbock@episd.org> wrote:

Hi Dan,

You are partially correct. Although the Superintendent is contractually entitled to the same raise teacher’s get, he is forgoing it due to his increase in January.

Dori Fenenbock

Every Student Prepared

On Jun 21, 2017, at 8:47 PM, Dan Wever <fwever1@att.net> wrote:

A $13,937.10 Raise.

dw

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More bad news

September 1, 2017

Well the numbers are unfortunately in.

For those that live within the EPISD geographic boundaries you will see a substantial increase in tax rates from every one of your taxing entities except the county.

The increases are interesting:

El Paso Community College District 4%
City of El Paso 5%
El Paso Independent School District 6%
El Paso County Hospital District 6.4%

The county will not impose a tax increase on us this year. Maybe we should get some of our other elected officials to run for congress.

We deserve better

Brutus

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