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Updated: 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007 | Posted: 9:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007

$230 Million EPISD Bond On Table

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El Paso School Administrators say Franklin High School on the westside of El Paso is the most overcrowded school within the district.

"We have about 30 teachers without a homeroom," said Lorenzo Garcia, Superintendent for EPISD.

Becca Byrd is one of those students with a teacher without an assigned homeroom. She said it's difficult especially when you need to turn in school work.

"Like when you miss a day you have to make up work and you have to find the teacher and you don't know where they are," Byrd said.

To alleviate some of the overcrowding at Franklin High School, EPISD said they are going to eventually make Horendo Middle School a 9th-grade-center and then build another middle school using the money from the proposed bond.

Yet, the district said this is only part of the overcrowding problem within the distict.

About 30 thousand families are expected to move into the El Paso area because of the Base Realignment.

EPISD expects 70-80 percent of those families to move into their district. Many into this area off of McCombs and US-54 in East El Paso. It is in this area that EPISD also has plans to build a high school. One of the many schools that will be built in this area.

"To be able to have these schools we will be able to further educate our students very well," Garcia said.

But, Gary Gonzalez, a parent of students in this district disagrees. He believes the school district hasn't been transparent about how they are spending their bond money, especially when he said the school district has refused to disclose their spending.

"But it is not right that a parent comes to the school district and requests something from them and they don't want to do it," Gonzalez said.

The district said 90 percent of the bond will be spent on new school construction.

This will include five new elementary schools, one new middle school and additional classroom space added to nine schools.

There will also be multipurpose rooms added to 17 elementary schools.

All of this is just a proposal until the voters decide at the bond election on May 12, if taxpayers should pay 230 million to the school district.

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