I wonder if there will be any negative effects of our current frequent use of hand sanitizers.
I remember learning that not all bacteria are bad, that some help us.
Can any of our readers enlighten us?
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Brutus
Superintendent of the year?
March 19, 2020This has not happened yet but it appears that EPISD staff thinks very highly of their superintendent:
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Brutus
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SISD less 75
March 18, 2020I saw this item on the Socorro Independent School District site:
A. Consider approval of Notice of Separation Incentive
INFO **The Department of Human Resources will offer a separation incentive in the
amount of $500.00 to the first seventy-five (75) classroom teachers, administrators, or
other professional exempt staff assigned to a school site, who submit a Notice of
Voluntary Separation effective at the end of the 2019-2020 contract year to the
Department of Human Resources on or before 5:00 p.m., on Friday, March 31, 2020.
Is this something that they normally do?
Are they downsizing?
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Brutus
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Evidently it isn’t bribery if the government does it
March 17, 2020This may turn out to be good news for teachers at EPISD.
This recommendation is part of a budget presentation to be made at the Tuesday, March 24, 2020 Board of Trustees budget workshop meeting”
It is recommended that the Board of Trustees approve the proposed End of Year Employee Stipend in the amount of $3,537,726.00 to
eligible employees at the end of the Spring Semester for the 2019-2020 school year, as presented.
Bribe
I don’t begrudge the teachers the money.
Unfortunately as part of the district’s effort to get voter approval of $668 million in bonds the district promised the teachers two bribes, a 750 dollar bonus last year and a 500 dollar bonus this year.
The district needed the votes of the teachers.
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Brutus
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Public charter school attendance effect on local school district revenue
March 16, 2020There have been some comments about how public charter schools take money from our local independent school districts.
In fact they do.
If we look at EPISD this year they will get about 560 million dollars in funding. Roughly 379 million will come from state and federal funding. Another 182 million will come from local property taxes. About 32.5 percent of the district’s funding comes from local property taxes.
If a child leaves EPISD and goes to a public charter school the district loses their state and federal funding for that child.
However it keeps the local property taxes.
While the district loses about 66% of their total funding for that child they get to keep the 32.5% that comes from local property taxes.
Since the child no longer attends the district this is free money and actually helps pay for things that the remaining children in the district get.
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Brutus
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