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…
WHY VOTERS SHOULD REJECT THE $386 MILLION CANUTILLO ISD BOND
Canutillo ISD has placed a $386 million bond on the ballot for the May 4 election. Voters should reject this bond just as they rejected the District’s previous two bonds,…
SISD SALARIES REVEALED, APR 2024
As late as 1930, about 65% of America’s schools were one-room buildings, often with a single teacher entrusted with all instruction. Since that time, most of our public schools have…
SISD BUDGET HOLE WIDENS TO $74 MILLION, STAFF SPENT $133 MILLION WITHOUT REQUIRED BOARD APPROVAL
It is now clear that the Socorro Independent School District is facing a financial meltdown that is far worse than has been reported by the media. Yesterday, CFO Vicki Perez…