{"id":319470,"date":"2026-06-02T18:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319470\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:11:07","slug":"poll-if-episd-declares-financial-exigency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/319470\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: If EPISD declares financial exigency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Independent School District leaders are racing to close a projected multimillion-dollar budget deficit with weeks left before the district must approve a balanced budget by the end of June.<\/p>\n<p>According to the district, EPISD is projecting a roughly $52.8 million shortfall for the current 2025-2026 budget year. Looking ahead, the district is also projecting a roughly $42.1 million shortfall for the 2026-2027 budget year.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, El Paso ISD is considering whether to ask voters to approve a future bond to tackle hundreds of millions of dollars in facility needs.<\/p>\n<p>If EPISD declares financial exigency, would you vote for their proposed bond?<\/p>\n<p>Vote below:<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/exclusive-inside-one-campuss-repair-needs-as-episd-weighs-future-bond-election-texas-education-agency-financial-exegency-crisis-classroom-teachers-employees-school-board-bowie-high-school-maintenance-broken-district-superintendent-chief-financial-officer?SRC=LINK\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">EXCLUSIVE: Inside one campus&#8217;s repair needs as EPISD weighs future bond election<\/a><\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/el-paso-isd-trustees-to-consider-financial-emergency-possible-staff-cuts-tuesday?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">El Paso ISD trustees to consider financial exigency, possible staff cuts Tuesday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 El Paso Independent School District leaders are racing to close a projected multimillion-dollar&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-319470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319470","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=319470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}