Protest wont stop high school fence plan, says judge

Fence is being built to keep the state from putting up roads on private property, says a county judge

Some Texas cities are trying to block Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan to build high fences in the state’s public school districts and other sensitive areas, saying school systems like Austin-Bergstrom International Middle School and Austin Public Schools deserve better for their money.

City council has held a public hearing on the plan an바카라사이트d officials said they are open to hearing concerns from the public. Austin is among Austin’s two biggest school districts, in the city of more than 4 million and the state of about 6.5 million, along a busy freeway that cuts through the city center.

The city council would need to issue a final bond to pass the project. The Austin Public Schools Board of Education approved a $6.3 million bond package on Sept. 5, a package the city council’s leaders said would allow it to put up a road, bike path or park on private property and allow school districts to raise the height of existing buildings, build out new facilities and hire additional staff to keep students safe.

But Austin is one of 11 Texas cities that have asked the state district superintendent of education to hold the bond vote and hold the board to an earlier date than originally scheduled. City school district leaders say it would be unfair to hold the bond vote to decide where to build roads, bike paths and other property improvements.

“I think it’s important that the state takes its time with this,” said Greg Jones, who chairs the local school board, at the hearing. He’s also the chief of public works at the county school district, which has asked the state Department of Public Safety to hold off on approving a highway around its community schools for about a month and put up a temporary fence around a new soccer fields.

“We don’t want to be dragged down, this is a time sens바카라사이트itive issue, time sensitive,” said Jones, a Democrat who represents one of the districts affected by the high-fence plan.

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It’s a situation that’s also raising questions as the high school system considers moving some of its students out of its East Austin campus in 2018 to a nearby school. And school districts in the rest of Texas are moving or considering moving their high schools. Last month, Texas school districts were discussing the move of some middle schoolers to nearby West and Westborough, saying it would keep them out of har