{"id":257980,"date":"2026-04-20T14:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257980\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T14:56:07","slug":"what-6-2-billion-could-buy-perspective-on-dallas-isd-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/257980\/","title":{"rendered":"What $6.2 billion could buy: Perspective on Dallas ISD bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Independent School District board <a href=\"https:\/\/bond.dallasisd.org\/bond2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">unanimously approved the package in February,<\/a> and it will appear as four separate propositions on the May 2 ballot. If passed, the money would build 26 brand-new replacement schools, renovate and modernize every existing campus, remove the district\u2019s remaining 700 portable classrooms used by nearly 10,000 students, upgrade technology and safety systems, buy new buses, and repair swimming pools.<\/p>\n<p>To grasp the enormous scale of $6.2 billion, consider what else that amount could purchase in today\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>It could buy roughly 15,500 average single-family homes in the Dallas area. It could purchase more than 60 new Boeing 737 commercial airliners. It could fund full four-year college scholarships for about 40,000 Texas students at public universities. It could cover annual salaries for more than 80,000 public school teachers. Or it could pay for the construction of eight to ten new community hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/bond.dallasisd.org\/bond2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> bond would raise the average Dallas homeowner\u2019s property taxes by about $2.79 per month,<\/a> or roughly $34 a year. Dallas ISD serves more than 140,000 students and says the investment is needed to replace aging facilities and improve learning environments across the district.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/go.audacy.com\/krld\/listen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LISTEN<\/a> on the Audacy App<br \/>Tell your Smart Speaker to &#8220;PLAY 1080 KRLD&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/newsletter\/subscribe\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign Up<\/a> to receive our KRLD Insider Newsletter for more news<br \/>Follow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/KRLDNews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KRLD\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/krldnews\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCX1Qei3Ev-DLiUujxT2A__Q\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Independent School District board unanimously approved the package in February, and it will appear as four&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":{"0":"post-257980","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-dallas","9":"tag-dallas-headlines","10":"tag-dallas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}