Dan Wever sent in this after viewing a video:
Carmen was talking about the Gafcon RFQ when someone asked her where the money ($500,000) was coming from and she was trying to answer and Dori broke in and explained that when they were deciding on how to spend the bond an amount was set aside for things that come up that may not be expected. Carmen said yes that is true we have around 40 million dollars for that! They are talking about bond money.
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The Texas Education Agency has published its preliminary 2017 accountability ratings as of August 15, 2017.
Last year two EPISD schools failed to meet standards. Both schools improved enough to meet standards this year.
This year the number is four.
Canyon Hills middle school, Guillen middle school, Bassett middle school and Whitaker elementary have been rated “improvement required”.
All schools in the Ysleta and Socorro districts met the state standards.
We deserve better
Brutus
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County commissioner Vince Perez recently criticized state senator Jose Rodriguez’s remark in Texas Monthly according to this Times article .
Evidently the senator said people want El Paso to be like “Gringolandia”–a homogenized American city.
Mr. Perez told the Times:
“His racially-divisive rhetoric further undermines civility in our political discourse and fuels a dangerous ‘us versus them’ mentality, that has hindered the legislative process in Austin and in Washington.”
We could not agree with Mr. Perez more. The senator is an embarrassment. If he doesn’t like our culture maybe he should consider moving.
We deserve better
Brutus
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At the Tuesday, September 19, 2017 city council meeting representative Noe moved to delete item 15.2 from the regular agenda based upon advice from the city attorney.
His motion was immediately seconded without discussion.
The agenda item:
While it is conceivable that passing such a resolution might cause legal complications for the city, we don’t see how having a discussion about it would.
Deleting the item was a blatant effort to keep the demolition opponents from having an opportunity to speak.
It seems that we have now reached a point where council not only does what it wants but it refuses to hear from the public.
Without regard as to where you stand on the issue, it seems that people should be allowed to express their opinions.
We deserve better
Brutus
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