SISD election: District 2, 3 candidates vye to represent Far Eastside amid school budget, management challenges

SISD election: District 2, 3 candidates vye to represent Far Eastside amid school budget, management challenges

Board candidate Phillip Shawn Ollis called the Socorro Independent School District’s financial crisis the “elephant in the room” looming over the May 3 election.Whoever is elected to the SISD board will inherit a debt that mounted over a decade before the current board – staring down the barrel of impending financial exigency, the equivalent of bankruptcy for education institutions – voted to lay off nearly 300 employees to shave $38 million fro…