| Homeland Security has
granted the Texas Dept of Public Safety $110 Million to secure our
borders, but DISD needs $1.34 Billion
after they just received $1.4 Billion in 2002? This
puts the amount of the 2007 bond
election in perspective.
It's much more than what is needed to secure the Texas
border? |
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| DISD needs over a
billion dollars for what? To build more schools when brand new Lee
McShan Elementary and Preston Hollow Elementary are severely under
enrolled?? (More than 30%). This is a McSham. What
is going on here? |
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| Do
you remember that $1 million of taxpayer money was spent to
investigate only 200 of 1400 DISD employees for the
$71 MILLION of
taxpayer $ missing due to usage of 3100
DISD employee credit cards?
Of those employees examined, 47%
(about 93 of the 200 employees) were found to have violated the
rules. How many company credit cards
does your employer or your company issue to employees?
Are they held accountable for the
expense report? This is called
fraud, my friends. |
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| And to offer so many
illegal immigrants free education in DISD as well as free breakfast,
lunch and subsidized housing from our Federal government when they
are not even citizens of our country! This is about doing the right
thing folks- abiding by laws and contributing accordingly. This is
about family members that have fought for or are fighting for our
country. This is not about race- but respect (yes respect not
expect). |
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| Our elementary school
is 91% Section 8 housing and 50% Spanish speaking ONLY and taught in
Spanish. Won?t that create another
generation of Latino laborers? Is
that right for them? We are doing Hispanic immigrants a great
disservice by not mandating that they learn English.
And, our
kids need to learn Spanish, and we need
diversity in our schools. |
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| This is a year of
CHANGE so start at the local level and make those that use your tax
dollars listen this time |
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| The 100 pound gorilla
is the private school tuition that many middle class parents are
struggling to cough up because they feel like their neighborhood
school has been taken away and is not reflective of the real world. |
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| Lastly, if your local
school has portables, remember that most are not even needed but
that they will never be torn down. It costs DISD supposedly $10-15K
to take each one down. HMMMM. To hire what company to remove them
and why at such a high price? They are built on cinder blocks and
against city code. Pray for the safety of our children if there is
ever a tornado. We have 25 portables at our school (50%
less in enrollment than BEFORE the portables existed) and
the school is over enrolled by 100 students that do not even live in
our school zone (10% of those kids do not even live in DISD) All
approved by the principal of the school. |
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I have facts.
So, ask me questions. |
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| It is time we really
know where all our tax money goes and to
hold the Trustees accountable. |
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| Pay
great teachers and start there! |
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Let?s get neighborhood
schools back, not raise our taxes. Let's
get the DISD Board of Trustees to specifically spell out what the
needs are and ask for a reasonable amount of money.
If something is NOT WORKING then
you need to change the way you are running the district. Check the
latest graduation stats (58%) and test scores,
and tell me it is working.
More money is not the answer-not
yet and not now. |
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