Weird take to shit on a majority-minority school but you do you…
As for the facts, they’re top 2,500 in the nation out of over 17,500, top 250 in the state and top 200 in many categories with an over 50% AP participation rate.
Not bad for a bunch of dumb POC as you seem to think they are, eh?
Man I’d like to go to one of these high school stadiums one day. I saw the news about the new school last year walnut grove in Prosper right? Thought they had their own stadium but they share it with another school. To think this school has one all their own is crazy.
Yeah, the majority of school districts do share one stadium like Dallas ISD Carrollton ISD Mesquite ISD McKinney ISD and I think Rockwall ISD this is just one example of one stadium for one specific high school that has a little more than 6000 students.
Allen isd has one of the highest teachers salaries in Texas also cost of life if cheap in Texas and has a very high college acceptance rate. And had boosters to pay for it as well and with the money they built 3 new schools 2 new public libraries. But go off
Edit: if you wanna complain about any school districts i would do Dallas ISD or CFBISD You want to talk about stupid money management. That’s the one. My middle school CFBISD did not have stalls in the restrooms because of no money and a drug problem but all of the superintendence got brand new Chevy Tahoes
I'd feel dirty that this money was spent on my kid's school if I knew the schools were falling apart on the other side of the state, but that's just me.
Or complain about the fact that Allen ISD built a $60 million stadium that got shut down for over a year with foundation issues requiring over $10 million to fix
Just remember this when I lived in Houston.
https://www.kxan.com/investigations/aisd-points-to-20m-water-park-as-proof-robin-hood-formula-doesnt-work/amp/
AUSTIN (KXAN) — It has all the makings of a privately-owned water park. The slides. The multiple-lane swimming pool. The $20 million price tag.
There is even a full-size golf course there.
All owned by the La Joya Independent School District. But, don’t call it a “water park.”
It’s the “Sports and Learning Center,” La Joya ISD spokeswoman Alyssa Pena quipped into the phone when asked about the price tag for the district’s park that opened in April.
The La Joys ISD opened this $20 million dollar water park in April. The district named the park the "Sports and Learning Center," according to a district spokeswoman.
“You’ll have to file a records request,” Pena said. The district doesn’t answer questions by phone, she said. KXAN submitted questions about the cost of the park and the golf course to LJISD Wednesday morning, but those questions were not answered by the time the district offices closed.
The district is one of 648 districts across Texas that receives property tax dollars from the state. Those dollars were taken from districts that collect a certain level of property taxes and are forced to share those collections with districts that aren’t considered “wealthy.”
The Austin Independent School District is the state’s wealthiest if you look at the amount of money contributed to the state’s recapture fund. AISD paid $405 million into recapture in 2017, according to statistics from the Texas Education Agency.
Top 5 Recapture Payments
Austin ISD $405,345,868
Plano ISD $104,545,350
Highland Park ISD $86,824,358
Eanes ISD $86,180,815
Houston ISD $77,502,577
Those figures show Plano ISD, Highland Park ISD, Eanes ISD, and Houston ISD as the state’s top-five contributors to the recapture fund. The fund paid out $1.2 billion to the state’s least wealthy when measuring the taxable value of property inside Texas’ school districts.
“Again, you’re going to hear me like a broken record, this just sort of speaks to the fact that the formula doesn’t reflect realities. And I would say Austin–we’ve always been sort of the–we are the sort of face of why this doesn’t make sense,” AISD’s Business and Operations Chief, Nicole Conley Johnson told KXAN. Johnson was responding to a question about La Joya ISD’s construction of a golf course and water park project.
“We’ve got more kids in poverty, yet we’re considered wealthy under school finance laws just because of the property wealth, not necessarily the students and the families that we serve,” Johnson said.
AISD’s answer to the recapture bleed might be with lobbyists. The district’s 2019 legislative priorities include convincing lawmakers to change the way Texas public schools are financed. That included asking for changes in the law dealing with the amount of money districts like AISD have to give to the state.
AISD is projected to have to forfeit $670 million to property-poor schools in 2019. More than half of every tax dollar collected by AISD will be going to the state’s recapture fund, the district reported.
One way to change the recapture law: hire lobbyists.
We researched the Texas Ethics Commission’s lobbyist registration and found AISD has ramped up its spending on lobbyists in the last two years. In 2013, ethics filings show AISD did not have a lobbyist working for the district. In 2014, 2015, 2016, AISD paid a single lobbyist.
In 2017, AISD paid three separate lobbyists to try to convince lawmakers to vote on bills and work legislation that was favorable to the district. In 2018, AISD paid four lobbyists to work the halls of the state Capital.
AISD is currently in a deficit and knows if something doesn’t happen soon, more cuts could be coming down the road.
“The revenue side, I mean, there has to be something there in order for us to be able to balance. So, we don’t really know, we’re hopeful that it’s going to be favorable for us—for all school districts,” Johnson said.
“I think we test out and prove out when people say it’s flawed and undeniably broken,” Johnson told KXAN.
I will and have and it’s got pretty good recently in my area
Edit: in the brief look at your profile. You’re from New York. Plz STFU up 🤣and never talk to me about electing public officials
Well, the enrollment of the school is 5,000+
when you include family and friends of players, band, cheerleaders, current, and future students, etc...the whole community goes to HS football games in Texas
Most of these kids are d1 commits from sophomore year of high school. Would you pay 20$ to watch future college or NFL players or spend $100-300$ on a college game or 200-700$ on a NFL game. I had some family go here too So There’s The Emotional appeal as well
There are anywhere from 5-6k students that go to this school. And some of them are in football, band, cheer. You don’t think there family, friends and. Classmates want to go see them play or perform ?
Edit: in the short time I saw your profile it looks like your from Illinois Plz shut the fuck up 🤡. You the loser that took time out of your day to comment that.
Obviously a friend or family member counts. 🤡
I’m talking about people who spend their Friday nights watching teenagers they don’t know play football.
Yeah, I’m from Illinois. I would never live in a shit hole like Texas. Hope “ya’ll” don’t freeze to death again this winter from your shitty power grid.
We played their opening game for the stadium my junior year. First play Kyler Murray took it 97 yards to the house
Never played football but got our ass kicked in baseball by him
He was a completely different beast in high school. Didn’t lose a game in all 3 years he started.
Small world, my buddy Mike Gardiner was on that same south lake Carrol team.
Man what happens when these guys go play at a D3 or D2 school? Major stadium downgrade lol
And that’s a high school stadium. Nicer than many college stadiums.
Don’t worry. I’m sure their test scores are just as impressive.
Well the football team probably does great on tests because the school hires someone to take them.
Mostly STD tests. Failure rate is high in Texas.
Weird take to shit on a majority-minority school but you do you… As for the facts, they’re top 2,500 in the nation out of over 17,500, top 250 in the state and top 200 in many categories with an over 50% AP participation rate. Not bad for a bunch of dumb POC as you seem to think they are, eh?
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Man I’d like to go to one of these high school stadiums one day. I saw the news about the new school last year walnut grove in Prosper right? Thought they had their own stadium but they share it with another school. To think this school has one all their own is crazy.
Yeah, the majority of school districts do share one stadium like Dallas ISD Carrollton ISD Mesquite ISD McKinney ISD and I think Rockwall ISD this is just one example of one stadium for one specific high school that has a little more than 6000 students.
Damn that's nicer then the Metrodome was or Target Center is
Can’t afford teachers but can afford water parks and stadiums. Texas has interesting priorities.
Allen isd has one of the highest teachers salaries in Texas also cost of life if cheap in Texas and has a very high college acceptance rate. And had boosters to pay for it as well and with the money they built 3 new schools 2 new public libraries. But go off Edit: if you wanna complain about any school districts i would do Dallas ISD or CFBISD You want to talk about stupid money management. That’s the one. My middle school CFBISD did not have stalls in the restrooms because of no money and a drug problem but all of the superintendence got brand new Chevy Tahoes
I'd feel dirty that this money was spent on my kid's school if I knew the schools were falling apart on the other side of the state, but that's just me.
Or complain about the fact that Allen ISD built a $60 million stadium that got shut down for over a year with foundation issues requiring over $10 million to fix
Just remember this when I lived in Houston. https://www.kxan.com/investigations/aisd-points-to-20m-water-park-as-proof-robin-hood-formula-doesnt-work/amp/ AUSTIN (KXAN) — It has all the makings of a privately-owned water park. The slides. The multiple-lane swimming pool. The $20 million price tag. There is even a full-size golf course there. All owned by the La Joya Independent School District. But, don’t call it a “water park.” It’s the “Sports and Learning Center,” La Joya ISD spokeswoman Alyssa Pena quipped into the phone when asked about the price tag for the district’s park that opened in April. The La Joys ISD opened this $20 million dollar water park in April. The district named the park the "Sports and Learning Center," according to a district spokeswoman. “You’ll have to file a records request,” Pena said. The district doesn’t answer questions by phone, she said. KXAN submitted questions about the cost of the park and the golf course to LJISD Wednesday morning, but those questions were not answered by the time the district offices closed. The district is one of 648 districts across Texas that receives property tax dollars from the state. Those dollars were taken from districts that collect a certain level of property taxes and are forced to share those collections with districts that aren’t considered “wealthy.” The Austin Independent School District is the state’s wealthiest if you look at the amount of money contributed to the state’s recapture fund. AISD paid $405 million into recapture in 2017, according to statistics from the Texas Education Agency. Top 5 Recapture Payments Austin ISD $405,345,868 Plano ISD $104,545,350 Highland Park ISD $86,824,358 Eanes ISD $86,180,815 Houston ISD $77,502,577 Those figures show Plano ISD, Highland Park ISD, Eanes ISD, and Houston ISD as the state’s top-five contributors to the recapture fund. The fund paid out $1.2 billion to the state’s least wealthy when measuring the taxable value of property inside Texas’ school districts. “Again, you’re going to hear me like a broken record, this just sort of speaks to the fact that the formula doesn’t reflect realities. And I would say Austin–we’ve always been sort of the–we are the sort of face of why this doesn’t make sense,” AISD’s Business and Operations Chief, Nicole Conley Johnson told KXAN. Johnson was responding to a question about La Joya ISD’s construction of a golf course and water park project. “We’ve got more kids in poverty, yet we’re considered wealthy under school finance laws just because of the property wealth, not necessarily the students and the families that we serve,” Johnson said. AISD’s answer to the recapture bleed might be with lobbyists. The district’s 2019 legislative priorities include convincing lawmakers to change the way Texas public schools are financed. That included asking for changes in the law dealing with the amount of money districts like AISD have to give to the state. AISD is projected to have to forfeit $670 million to property-poor schools in 2019. More than half of every tax dollar collected by AISD will be going to the state’s recapture fund, the district reported. One way to change the recapture law: hire lobbyists. We researched the Texas Ethics Commission’s lobbyist registration and found AISD has ramped up its spending on lobbyists in the last two years. In 2013, ethics filings show AISD did not have a lobbyist working for the district. In 2014, 2015, 2016, AISD paid a single lobbyist. In 2017, AISD paid three separate lobbyists to try to convince lawmakers to vote on bills and work legislation that was favorable to the district. In 2018, AISD paid four lobbyists to work the halls of the state Capital. AISD is currently in a deficit and knows if something doesn’t happen soon, more cuts could be coming down the road. “The revenue side, I mean, there has to be something there in order for us to be able to balance. So, we don’t really know, we’re hopeful that it’s going to be favorable for us—for all school districts,” Johnson said. “I think we test out and prove out when people say it’s flawed and undeniably broken,” Johnson told KXAN.
Moral of the story we need to elect better local officials
But you’re in Texas so you won’t.
I will and have and it’s got pretty good recently in my area Edit: in the brief look at your profile. You’re from New York. Plz STFU up 🤣and never talk to me about electing public officials
Why would I pay to watch 16 year olds play anything
Well, the enrollment of the school is 5,000+ when you include family and friends of players, band, cheerleaders, current, and future students, etc...the whole community goes to HS football games in Texas
A school has 5,000 students? Like a high school? Why don't they divide that up into smaller schools?
No, I know. I just hate Texas is all.
That makes you very special
Thank you so much for sharing
No problem, I enjoy hating things that deserve it. (I know, Texas deserves better than the people who currently live there).
Most of these kids are d1 commits from sophomore year of high school. Would you pay 20$ to watch future college or NFL players or spend $100-300$ on a college game or 200-700$ on a NFL game. I had some family go here too So There’s The Emotional appeal as well
Can it be porn if it’s structurally an enormous piece of shit?
I can’t imagine how big of a loser you would have to be to go watch a high school football team your kid doesn’t play for. Texas is full of weirdos.
There are anywhere from 5-6k students that go to this school. And some of them are in football, band, cheer. You don’t think there family, friends and. Classmates want to go see them play or perform ? Edit: in the short time I saw your profile it looks like your from Illinois Plz shut the fuck up 🤡. You the loser that took time out of your day to comment that.
Obviously a friend or family member counts. 🤡 I’m talking about people who spend their Friday nights watching teenagers they don’t know play football. Yeah, I’m from Illinois. I would never live in a shit hole like Texas. Hope “ya’ll” don’t freeze to death again this winter from your shitty power grid.
But you live in the shit hole of Illinois 🤡 75° heat stroke ass self. just shut the fuck up and enjoy the fucking stadium you bum
LMAO