Diego Mendoza-Moyers: Today, we’re talking about the financial disaster underway within El Paso’s largest school district.
This week, the elected trustees of El Paso Independent School District learned of a $52 million hole in the district’s budget that became apparent in early May. The school district’s leaders blamed the problem on the district’s former finance chief, Martha Aguirre, who resigned a couple of weeks ago when an external audit revealed the financial blowup.
The message from the district’s consultant was clear: EPISD must slash spending, or it will risk running out of cash to fund school operations and public education throughout the district…