This was part of a note from Dan Wever about the school closings:
Somebody just wants to go back to the K-8 format and is willing to pay over 200 million dollars of EPISD taxpayer money to get their wish.
You can look at the Maintenance costs and they show it is not costing what they say it is costing.
Attached was a spreadsheet that broke out various costs of operating many of the schools.
We deserve better
Brutus
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We recently heard a rumor that the superintendent has told some of his principals that it’s their bond issue–he won’t be around to see it through.
Can any of our readers confirm this, or is it just an attempt to discredit the bond process?
We deserve better
Brutus
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The EPISD teachers have been led to believe that the nine million dollars per year of savings that might result from spending 670 million dollars will be given to them in the form of raises. The premise is absurd. Spending $670 million will cost money, not save money.
What we have not heard a lot about is how long it will be before the savings are realized, if ever.
Architects will have to be hired. Schools will have to be designed and then built. Most of the construction will be on existing campuses with students present. How long will that take?
Will any of the current school board members still be around if they ever finish the projects? Will future boards honor the current commitment?
We deserve better
Brutus
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This mailer was just given to us by one of our loyal readers:
Are they desperate or just plain shameless?
We deserve better
Brutus
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The Times published a Lindsey Anderson article on the front page of its Sunday, October 9, 2016 edition.
The informative article reminded us that the $230 million bond issue that we gave the EPISD back in 2007 was poorly planned and has yet to be completed.
Of the original amount $76 million has either been reallocated or is just sitting there idle even though the district has already borrowed the money and we are paying interest on it.
Just like today the school board then wanted us to believe that there was a crisis–the army was going to transfer troops to El Paso and with typical El Paso bias assumed they would buy houses in the northeast part of town. Well as it turned out many of the troops were younger than the school board expected. A simple inquiry to the army would have given the district better information about the demographics of the troops and their families. The district was incompetent to make projections back then. Why should we think that they are competent now?
Then again maybe they knew better. Why waste a good crisis?
We deserve better
Brutus
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