Take a look at what the EPISD central office costs have been:
The district is shrinking but the central office is not.
We deserve better
Brutus
EPISD central office costs
November 20, 2019
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EPISD shrinking even faster
November 10, 2019EPISD enrollment is evaporating.
According to their newest five year budget forecast the average daily attendance at the district is down 1,829 students this school year.
Have you heard anything about cutting back at the central office?
We deserve better
Brutus
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Please vote today
November 5, 2019If you have not already voted please do so today.
This is the last day you can vote on the proposed bond issue.
My property taxes increased $800 dollars this year.
A large part of the quality of life bonds have yet to be sold. When they are sold our taxes will go up further.
Those of us that live in the EPISD district are now paying more than $3.07 per hundred dollars of valuation in property taxes.
That’s three percent of your property’s value every year.
That puts us at the highest property tax rate among the 50 largest cities in the United States.
What the city is asking for is a blank check.
If they need new buildings the should figure out how much they will cost and then ask us for the money.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Declining birth rate
October 11, 2019El Paso is seeing a declining birth rate like most of the nation.
The county hospital shows these numbers for their first ten months of operation each year:
2017 2,458 births
2018 2,311 births
2019 2,200 births
That’s a 10.5% drop in two years.
Yet we continue to build new schools.
We deserve better
Brutus
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EPISD still losing students
October 2, 2019Unfortunately EPISD’s enrollment problems continue.
We’ve written before about them losing students every year. EPISD getting smaller faster gave a recap of where they were in the 2018-2019 school year.
The first six weeks numbers are out for this year.
On August 27, 2018 they showed an enrollment of 57,103.
As of September 13, 2019 they were at 55,434 students.
This continues their loss of about 1,600 students every year.
We deserve better
Brutus
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