SISD ENROLLMENT TO DROP BY 3,500
The Socorro ISD is in financial freefall. Chief Financial Officer Vicki Perez has already confirmed that between the current fiscal year and next fiscal year, the District faces a combined…
LEGAL PETITION FILED TO REMOVE ARMANDO RODRIGUEZ FROM CANUTILLO ISD BOARD
We were emailed a copy of a legal petition, filed with the County District Clerk May 22, 2024 at 1:43pm, aimed at removing Armando Rodriguez, President of the Canutillo ISD…
EPISD BOARD TO VOTE AT 2:00PM TODAY ON TERMINATING WHISTLEBLOWER GABRIELA CASTELLANO
Gabriela Castellano is a teacher at EPISD (and was formerly employed at SISD) and is married to Ricardo Castellano, Socorro ISD Trustee of District 3. We interviewed the couple in…
EL PASO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTS HAVE 386 ADMINISTRATORS EARNING OVER $100,000
As promised, we filed public information requests with all nine local school districts in order to obtain complete lists of employee names, titles, and salaries, which we posted below. We…
CBO PIEKARSKI OF CISD FIRED, SISD BOARD MEETING TODAY AT 6:00PM
Yesterday, under agenda item 5C, the Board of Trustees of Canutillo Independent School District voted 4-1 to terminate their Chief Business Officer, Martha Piekarski, with Breanne Barnes dissenting and Lucy…
SISD TRUSTEE PABLO BARRERA ARRESTED, CISD MAY HAVE VIOLATED OPEN MEETING LAWS
It is difficult to keep up with the administrative chaos and financial mismanagement in our local school districts, but we do our best. Today we learned that Pablo Barrera, Socorro…
$386M CANUTILLO ISD BOND PASSES, TOTAL COMMUNITY DEBT INCREASES TO $10.7B
This past Saturday, the voters of Canutillo ISD narrowly supported a $386.2 million school bond, even though the Board of Trustees is so incompetent that they cannot balance their budget.…
CANUTILLO ISD REPEATEDLY VIOLATES TEXAS PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT
Chapter 552 of the Texas Government Code gives the media and public the right to access records from any government entity within the State, including school districts. We recently filed…
THE EPISD IMPLOSION
Claudia Lorena Silva of El Paso Matters reports that student enrollment in EPISD is at its lowest level since the 1960s. The district also suffers from a severe budgetary crisis,…