Local Government

It’s the wrong time for Dallas ISD to ask voters to sign off on the biggest bond request in Texas history

Despite a major economic meltdown and rampant unemployment, Dallas ISD appears poised to ask voters to sign off on the largest bond request in Texas history. The district’s jaw-dropping bond package totals approximately $3.7 billion, proposing to fund improvements at most of the district’s facilities and campuses and replacements at two dozen schools. Community members...

July 26, 2020

Local Government

Dallas ISD Declining Enrollment Rate

Despite the current economic crisis, Dallas ISD is poised to ask for voters to approve a $3.7 billion bond. While the timing is rather alarming, there are more concerns than meets the eye. While DISD is considering building at least 10 new schools and 14 replacement schools, its enrollment numbers have seen a steady, long-term...

July 6, 2020

Local Government

Property Taxes Already a Problem in Dallas ISD

This year, Dallas ISD appears poised to ask voters to approve a $3.7 billion bond, the “largest in Texas history.” The contents of the bond and the district’s falling student enrollment raise serious questions as to the need for such a large issuance at this time—as does taxpayers’ ability to afford more debt. Dallas ISD...

July 6, 2020

Local Government

Dallas ISD’s Big, Big Debts

Even though there’s a pandemic happening, Dallas ISD is asking voters to support to a jaw-dropping $3.7 billion bond to fund campus improvements, new schools, and security and technology purchases. This request comes just five years after voters approved a $1.6 billion bond in 2015 for similar projects. The sheer magnitude of the district’s proposed...

July 6, 2020

Local Government

ICYMI: Dallas ISD Considers State’s Largest School Bond in Texas History

Despite ongoing economic carnage (the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic), Dallas ISD appears poised to ask voters to support a mammoth $3.7 billion bond package—“the largest bond request by any type of taxing entity in Texas history.” The district hopes to use these borrowed billions to build “[n]ew and  more efficient security technology, 14 new...

July 1, 2020

Local Government

Texas Governments Need to Go on a Diet

As of late, the prospects of keeping a job have shrunk. Texas’ unemployment rate jumped to almost 13 percent in April with over a million jobs being lost and several industries shrinking 10 percent or more year-over-year. However, local governments in Texas have not experienced the same troubles that are affecting everyone else. The public...

June 11, 2020