It has been reported to us that EPISD is considering adding 21 teachers to elementary school staffs that will teach music and art.
We hope that they can do this.
Brutus
EPISD–educating future citizens
May 28, 2017
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Political cat fight
May 25, 2017We live in interesting times.
Our county judge and our EPISD school board president both seem to want to be our next United States congressman.
The Times has been pretty much hands off in regard to the situation over at EPISD. That is up until now.
Word on the street is that the county judge’s operatives have decided to sick the Times on the school board president and the superintendent. Unfortunately the situation at EPISD will give the Times a lot to write about.
Some say that the school superintendent and board president are toast.
The board president comes from the moneyed side of the power equation in El Paso.
Will we see her and her supporters now talking openly about the problems over at the county? Will they put financial pressure on the Times?
Will the editor of the Times be caught in the middle?
Stay tuned.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Property tax rates compared to other cities
May 22, 2017The “50-State Property Tax Comparison Study for taxes paid in 2015” from the Minnesota Center for Fiscal Excellence has just been published.
The study is 103 pages long and unfortunately lists El Paso in the lists of cities that have the highest tax rates. Their numbers as they relate to El Paso are:
Homestead property tax rate–3rd highest among the 50 largest cities
Industrial property tax rate for properties valued between one and 25 million dollars–3rd highest among the 50 largest cities (second highest for properties valued at $100,000)
Apartment property tax rate–10th highest among the 50 largest cities
These numbers are before the majority of the quality of life bonds and school district bonds (EPISD and Ysleta) are sold.
Recruiters needed
Do we have any volunteers for the job of bringing new businesses to El Paso?
We deserve better
Brutus
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EPISD–more out of town lawyers
May 18, 2017Dan Wever sent this in:
Isn’t it funny that we cannot even find Lawyers in El Paso that can do a simple education job? Just the first part is probably well over half a million dollars.
Wake up El Paso before they take Chico’s Tacos away from us. 🙂
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Times picks its words
May 14, 2017
Wouldn’t it have been more clear for the Times to have written “A chartered school bus”?
We deserve better
Brutus
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