EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Ysleta Independent School District voted 5-1 to approve the budget for next school year. They also have a $12 million budget deficit for the year and hope to balance it by the end of the school year.
Superintendent Xavier De la Torre said that the main goal for the board was to save teacher jobs and didn’t want to lay off anyone this close to the school year.
“It may be imminent. I may be back here in March telling people that we’re going to have to reduce the force,” said De la Torre. “But I would rather spend every dime in that fund and to make sure that everybody that’s currently employed that left the school district believing that they were employed at the end of May to come back and start the school year.”…