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| New leadership needed, not more taxes |
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| Written by Cindy Barnett | |||
| Sunday, 05 September 2010 07:55 | |||
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A message has to be sent to Lewisville ISD administration that business as usual is no longer acceptable! According to Texas Education Agency (TEA) the facts are, in the last four years: LISD has seen a 3.6% growth in students The district has yet to build a 9th grade campus for Marcus. Marcus does have a brand new, multi-million dollar stadium and multi-million dollar field house. Don’t mind the portable classrooms still being used in the Marcus parking lot! It is clear that special programs and teachers are not the things that have been growing and given attention. The attention has been on building unnecessary buildings, stadiums and field houses for all high schools. It is time for new leadership for the administration of this school district as well as apparent we need to elect a few more board members that will encourage the administration to focus on education rather than building! VOTE NO for the tax increase!
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"LISD superintendent Dr. Jerry Roy said some kind of tax increase would be necessary to overcome the deficit without drastically changing school operations.
“This is a national crisis,” Roy said. “It’s just not reality based to think that we are going to survive this without some revenue increase from somewhere.”
Hit the rainy day fund. Reign in expenses. If that doesn't work then look at revenue. The property tax we pay goes up in the good times and down in the bad times. We shouldn't have to pay more in the good times and then more in the bad times (read: tax increase); the administrators should have to manage the excess in the good times prudently so they can spend it in the bad times without raising taxes.
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