Official Ballot LanguageOfficial Bond Page
Constructing, renovating, and equipping school facilities including replacement campuses, safety and security improvements, career and technical education facilities, transportation equipment, and related infrastructure.
What This Funds
Official purpose: The construction, renovation, improvement, and equipping of school buildings and facilities, including 26 replacement schools, elimination of approximately 700 portable buildings, safety and security upgrades, 500 school buses, and science labs.
Construction and renovation of 26 replacement schools, elimination of ~700 portable classrooms, and safety infrastructure upgrades districtwide. The largest single proposition in Texas school bond history.
- ~26 replacement schools targeted in disinvested neighborhoods (South Dallas, West Dallas, Oak Cliff)
- Elimination of ~700 portable/temporary classroom structures
- 500 school buses
- Science lab upgrades districtwide
- Safety/security infrastructure upgrades
- 2020 bond delivery record: 9-11 of 16 promised campuses opened or underway by early 2026
Portable classrooms routinely develop CO2 levels high enough to restrict oxygenated blood flow to the prefrontal cortex. Students are not underperforming because of cultural deficits — they are operating under measurable physiological constraints that a new building removes.
— Walker, 2025, Prairie View A&M doctoral dissertationWho Benefits
Students currently learning in aging portables, especially in South Dallas, West Dallas, and Oak Cliff neighborhoods that have experienced decades of disinvestment. 26 replacement schools target the most deteriorated campuses.
Accountability & Conditions
Addresses critical facility needs in historically disinvested neighborhoods. The 2020 bond delivered 9-11 replacement campuses but transparency gaps require stronger oversight conditions before this larger authorization.
- Quarterly campus-level spending dashboards with verified, internally consistent data
- Independent annual financial and performance audit by third-party firm (California Prop 39 CBOC model)
- Published CBSC meeting minutes within 14 days of each meeting with recorded votes
- Project-by-project timeline tracking with original and revised completion dates publicly displayed
- South Dallas replacement schools receive priority transparency
Key Risk Signal
2020 Bond Red Flags: 1 fewer campus than promised, $9M vs. $34.45M budget discrepancy on MLK Arts Academy, zero published CBSC meeting minutes across the entire tenure. These are not credit events — they are political execution risk signals.