MELTDOWN OF OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS
There are nine school districts in El Paso County, each with its own superintendent, board of trustees, and bloated administration. These districts consume more than 40% of our property tax…
SAN ELIZARIO INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES HAPPY WITH FOUR-DAY WORKWEEK
There are nine public school districts in El Paso County, including the San Elizario Independent School District, which has about 3,000 students enrolled. Of the more than 1,250 public school…
THREE EL PASO SCHOOL DISTRICTS SUE TO PREVENT RELEASE OF NEW ACCOUNTABILITY RATINGS
Claudia Lorena Silva of El Paso Matters recently published a report on the dozens of Texas school districts that are suing the Commissioner of Education to prevent the release of…
MORE THAN 900 TEACHERS LEFT EPISD, YISD, AND SISD IN ONE SCHOOL YEAR!
According to Claudia Lorena Silva of El Paso Matters, more than 900 teachers left the County’s three largest school districts during the 2021-22 academic year! That is a catastrophic figure.…
EPISD PLANNING $600 MILLION BOND!!!
We wish it were not true. The El Paso Independent School District is planning to place a $600 million bond before the voters! The last bond passed by 55.41% on…
NUMBER OF EPISD FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES DROPS 14% SINCE 2014
Thanks to new data we acquired through an open records request, we can now report that the number of full-time EPISD employees decreased from 8,402 in 2014 to 7,229 this…
KFOX14: NINE EL PASO SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS EARN A TOTAL OF $2,055,721
Why do we have nine school districts with nine administrations and nine headquarters? Why are we paying nine superintendents a total of $2,055,721 in a community with so many living…
EPISD SALARIES REVEALED
If you live within the El Paso Independent School District as we do, you will notice that 44.4% of your property tax bill supports K-12 education. Since we are curious…
EL PASO COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICT TAX RATES
The Socorro Independent School District recently posted the attached chart on their webpage showing the tax rates for the nine school districts in El Paso County. If you reside within…