A Look at Houston's $805M Referendum in light of Enrollment Declines

Ericka Mellon:

First, the Houston school board, which is expected to approve that $805 million bond proposal Thursday, signed a $3.8 million contract with Magellan Consulting, a Conroe-based firm that specializes in analyzing school buildings. Magellan consultants - with the help of HISD's former in-house demographer, who now works for the company - also estimated student enrollment for each of the district's schools over the next decade. Magellan projects the district's overall enrollment will continue dropping - about 4 percent over the next decade. With that decline, several people have asked why the district needs taxpayers to dip into their pockets to fund new campuses.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at August 8, 2007 12:00 AM
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