This week’s Rotten Apple Award winner is Keller ISD. After a tax increase election failed, district officials plan to get their hands on more of the taxpayers’ dollars by instituting a $187 per year fee for children to ride the bus to school.
Read below to see two more districts that are deserving of the “Rotten Apple Award.”
The nominees for Week 16 of the Rotten Apple Award are:
Pflugerville ISD: A school district administrator flat-out admitted that high debt and declining property values has put the district in a pinch (we call that poor planning!). Yet instead of cutting administrator salaries (the superintendent earns $31,000 more than the Texas governor!) or dipping into the district’s $12.6 million reserves, they’re asking voters to trust them with more taxes via an 8-cent tax hike.
Brock ISD: This district educates a whopping 852 students, yet the superintendent earns $122,886 per year. Only 43 percent of the revenue the district brings in is even spent on instruction. Even so, district officials claim they need to raise taxes or face salary freezes and “other cuts” as a direct result belt-tightening in the legislature – and nothing else … wink, wink.
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Send in your nominations for Week 16: We are giving away a $50 Visa gift card each week to the person who nominates the winning school district. Send your nominations to texas@afphq.org, and please include examples of the ISD’s outrageous spending. Click here to read more about the contest.
