We should be seeing initial figures about school enrollment very soon.
EPISD has been losing about 1,000 students a year and that is causing significant problems with their financing.
Stay tuned.
We deserve better
Brutus
EPISD enrollment
August 23, 2019
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Posted by Brutus
Hypocritical
August 22, 2019This item is on the Tuesday, August 20, 2019 city council agenda:
They might go a little further and condemn demonizing and dehumanizing anyone regardless of origin.
Then again that would require putting some thought into what they do.
Please note that in spite of their stand on what others might say council has imposed the highest tax rate of the fifty largest cities in the United States on us.
We deserve better
Brutus
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EPISD lowering its property tax rate
August 21, 2019Take a look at this:
The chart shows EPISD’s property tax rates for last year along with the rate they are considering for next year.
The end result is that they are considering lowering the combined tax rate from $1.31 per hundred dollars of property valuation to $1.2684 per hundred.
They are lowering the operations and maintenance rate while increasing the interest and sinking fund rate. Remember that we allowed them to take ten cents away from the interest and sinking fund rate and add it to the operations and maintenance rate. The effect of the change was to increase the amount that the state gives the district.
That is the other part of the news. You can see that last year the state gave the district $5,554 per student while next year they are projecting $6,686 from the state.
This is better
Brutus
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EPISD’s reaction is “ho hum”
August 20, 2019According to an article in the Times the Texas Education Agency released ratings last week that showed three EPISD schools to have failing grades. (Schuster, Alta Vista, and Moye)
This is bad.
The EPISD board of trustees is having its next meeting Tuesday, August 20, 2019.
The agenda does not include an item to discuss or take action relative to the failures.
No special meeting of the board has been called.
The Texas Education Agency grades should not be a surprise. We would think that someone in the legion of administrators would have seen this and set the ships right.
Actions need to be taken immediately.
We deserve better,
Brutus
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Speak up
August 19, 2019Evidently city council will vote tomorrow (Tuesday, August 20, 2019) on the issue of overriding the mayor’s veto of the city budget that council passed.
Some of the council members cannot run for re-election because of term limits.
Those members will probably vote for overriding the veto since they don’t have to think about keeping their jobs.
Other members will be given a chance to pretend that they support lower taxes.
Now is the time to contact your city council member and tell them what you think.
We deserve better
Brutus
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Posted by jcurrey
elpasospeak 
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