Imagine we would have kept half of the 2,000 kids. We would have kept $20 million, and we wouldn't be having this deficit. Another thing is 95% attendance rate is a pretty good standard. EPISD had has been at 90% [attendance rate] for years. Wow. And so working on a plan to get that. That's millions of dollars that are left on the table because funding from the state comes from people in seats, from kids being in seats every single day. (39:21)
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Asserts that EPISD's attendance rate has been consistently at 90%.
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