[TheGrimReaper]

And Cypress-Fairbanks ISD has a "sports complex" under construction, scheduled for completion in 2006.
A tidy little $28 million down the crapper.

When I graduated HS, the entire district didn't have $28 million in assets.

[TexasTransplant]

Schools have become Monuments to Politcians, just like Highways and Bridges.

[Flyer]

I think that Cinco Ranch school was $50 - 60 million. Outrageous.

[jf55510]

And Cypress-Fairbanks ISD has a "sports complex" under construction, scheduled for completion in 2006. A tidy little $28 million down the crapper.

Which the residents voted for in a bond election. What is the problem?

[Aggie Mama]

Ugh! I drive by that every morning when I take my son to private school. I get so angry every time I just want to spit.

[lentulusgracchus]

I got another one for you. The Houston Independent School District (HISD) just got authority at the polls to float $600,000,000 worth of bonds a couple of years ago. Right now, two big multistory admin buildings are going up in what used to be the parking lot of a high-school stadium complex, replacing their single admin building several miles away that always got new carpet about every four years, which they are now going to sell because the real estate under the existing admin building (known around the school district as the Taj Mahal among teachers disgusted by roof leaks in their own schools) is so inflated right now.

The district has stadium/field-house/baseball complexes that serve several schools: the two large football fields on this property host five or six football games a week during the season, and the small field (small grandstand, tiny pressbox) is used for four or five additional middle-school or elementary-school games every week. In spring the football fields are restriped as soccer pitches, and large crowds attend (lots of blue-and-white flags).

HISD is a big taxer and a big spender, and its teachers' commitment to educating the kids is second to......well, several.

HISD just had another round of cheating scandals involving three or four schools, regarding the basic competence tests the State requires every year. A couple of school principals demoted, a couple of teachers fired.

[ConservativeDude]

Aren't most of those sports deals also funded with special bond elects? Until taxpayers get pissed off and start saying no to both the legislature and the special bond deals, then this is going to continue....