Mueller Lake Park Outdoor Amphitheater
Hold AISD Accountable
RECEIVED Wed., Oct. 2, 2019
Dear Editor,
Please add additional emphasis on AISD's plan to close 12 schools ["AISD, Remixed," News, Sept. 13]. This plan is highly inequitable, it affects a majority economically disadvantaged population, and it is ultimately not funded. AISD will require future bonds AFTER schools have closed and students are crammed into spaces that cannot support additional capacities. Money should be available up front if such plan were to go through. Note that NO SCHOOL IN THE WEST SIDE OF AUSTIN IS AFFECTED. How is this possible? How as Austin constituents could we allow this? Please bring light to the problem of segregation still present in the city and school system.
This needs to slow down. Engage the community, fix what needs to be fixed, not target a population overall.
Look into the building values; there is a big theory out there that AISD wants to sell these buildings for condos. The properties are in prime real estate. Allen Elementary School was closed with the proposal to build affordable housing; to this date there is no affordable housing being built. Who is holding AISD accountable? What happened to our 2017 bond? Our schools were supposed to get "modernized," and I wonder how much went to Westside schools while they deferred modernization to Eastside, Downtown, Central Austin campuses?
There is too much to hash out for this plan to go forward.
Please add additional emphasis on AISD's plan to close 12 schools ["AISD, Remixed," News, Sept. 13]. This plan is highly inequitable, it affects a majority economically disadvantaged population, and it is ultimately not funded. AISD will require future bonds AFTER schools have closed and students are crammed into spaces that cannot support additional capacities. Money should be available up front if such plan were to go through. Note that NO SCHOOL IN THE WEST SIDE OF AUSTIN IS AFFECTED. How is this possible? How as Austin constituents could we allow this? Please bring light to the problem of segregation still present in the city and school system.
This needs to slow down. Engage the community, fix what needs to be fixed, not target a population overall.
Look into the building values; there is a big theory out there that AISD wants to sell these buildings for condos. The properties are in prime real estate. Allen Elementary School was closed with the proposal to build affordable housing; to this date there is no affordable housing being built. Who is holding AISD accountable? What happened to our 2017 bond? Our schools were supposed to get "modernized," and I wonder how much went to Westside schools while they deferred modernization to Eastside, Downtown, Central Austin campuses?
There is too much to hash out for this plan to go forward.
Thank you,
Carolina Montenegro
Carolina Montenegro
