“What has captured people’s attention is that the Highland Park School District overlays Highland Park,” Cal Jillson, a political science professor at Southern Methodist University, told me, “but it extends just a little bit into Dallas, so the scare tactic is that in that little bit of Dallas, there will be low-income apartments with all kinds of people we don’t know, including potentially Syrian jihadis, people crawling out of Mexico across the border all the way to Dallas with their automatic weapons slung over their shoulders, going into those apartments and sending their kids into these schools. Use the links below to view the boundaries of the District and the attendance zone boundaries for each of the elementary schools. All of our campuses are accepting new students. A student must live within HPISDs boundary to attend school. As one of the emails put it, “Diversity is an innocuous sounding method of diluting excellence.” HPISD welcomes all students who meet the district residency and State of Texas age and health requirements. And if that happens (spoiler alert: it won’t), who even knows what type of riffraff will crawl into the high-performing, affluent, and overwhelmingly white, schools: “non-English-speaking” students from all over Latin America, Middle Eastern refugees, assorted other low-income scum. This increased tax rate would result in an increase of $10.50 per month, and a $125.94 annual increase, on a $100,000 home, according to data provided by the district.ġ00% of all bond funds or Interest & Sinking (I&S) dollars stay in the HPISD and are not subject to recapture.According to anonymous emails that circulated in advance of the election, if the bond passed and the schools increased in size, Section 8 housing could spring up in the sliver of Dallas that’s part of the Highland Park Independent School District. If both propositions pass, the district would see a $0.21 increase in its interest and sinking rate, raising the total tax rate to $1.1966. Proposition two is a $1 million bond centered around technology improvements in the district, including new student and staff devices like Chromebooks, laptops, interactive televisions, and other technology in the future.īecause the state mandates the tax rate set for maintenance and operations for Texas School Districts, the tax impact would only impact the interest and sinking portion of the tax rate. Transportation – buses, fleet vehicles.School Safety Measures at existing and new buildings.There is an optional 20 homestead exemption and a 50,000 over. Roadways, Utilities, and Infrastructure for new constriction The property tax rate in Highland Park is 0.23 on each 100 of assessed valuation of all taxable property, real, personal, or mixed, located in the Town of Highland Park on the first day of January, and not exempted from taxation by the constitution and laws of the State of Texas.Softball and Baseball Fields (south of the football field).Other portions of this proposition include: What’s happening with West Texas A&M University? An overview of the drag show cancellation, lawsuitĪccording to information from the district, proposition one is $129 million, centering around the addition of a Career and Technology Center and early Elementary School Campus on some of the district’s property north of the Amazon Fulfillment Center.

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