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Joshua Acevedo: “It's the scam that the voucher system lets people believe…”

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El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk

Published April 8, 2025 | Video Starts at 44:48

And how do we do that in a fair way? And I don't think this is about being anti private school. I think it's fine for private schools to exist, but It's the scam that the voucher system lets people believe that they're gonna be able to go to whatever school they're gonna want. Right. But when you think about it, a private school might not even have capacity. Yeah. At the levels like, I don't know if Bradford. Right. Can handle a thousand kids. (44:48–45:04)

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“Right now we have our taxes, 70% property taxes from residential. 30 is commercial.”
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“That is flipped in many other communities like Phoenix or Dallas or Austin.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 16:28-16:33
“There hasn't been anything passed in over three decades to address [immigration] issue.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 26:24-26:29
“School closures that have happened across the country have never really saved money.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 37:19-37:23
“Every year they would say, we're losing a thousand kids. This year, that's equivalent to $20 million.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 38:26-38:32
“We're working on a project that is going to actually close part of Piedras for about a year, and that's coming next year.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 05:28-05:36
“We're reconstructing the street. And that's a huge deal because it hasn't been touched in decades.”
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“We are doing it as part of our Sensitivity Lights, Sun, City Lights project.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 05:53-05:57
“The police headquarters is going to get demolished because the police headquarters will be moving.”
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“This is part of the bond from 2019, public safety bond.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 06:31-06:36
“Right now we have it in the Northeast. They'll be moving over there.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 06:46-06:51
“Piedras from Montana to Yandel will be shut down.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 07:28-07:35
“District 2 starts at the border, and it ends at Hondo Pass in the northeast.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 11:08-11:15
“Modesto Gomez park was built on a landfill years ago.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 11:28-11:36
“We're gonna have the first turf fields in El Paso [at Modesto Gomez park].”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 12:11-12:15
“Memorial Park had a master plan [that the community opposed].”
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“We're working on fixing the bathrooms [at Sunrise Park] that were vandalized.”
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“Wainwright park, which is at a former school, got delayed. Hopefully by the end of the year, beginning of next year, we're going to have…”
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“Aerospace is going to be a game changer for our community.”
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“We're working on bringing a grocery store to Alabama with some developers at an old publishing house that has just been sitting vacant for…”
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“We did a zoning change a few months ago, and it's looking good, and we're just kind of seeing if a grocery store could be there.”
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“Since I took office in 2024, over a year, the numbers have significantly dropped.”
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“There was an emergency ordinance that the city was doing. The data didn't really show that we needed to be doing that ordinance anymore.”
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“We have dropped every emergency ordinance that we had.”
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“The federal government was giving us funds.”
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“Those funds ended at the end of last year in December.”
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“The state governor had asked [state troopers] to do immigration stuff and they were kind of over it.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 28:51-28:59
“We don't at the city, we don't enforce immigration because that's like you said, like a federal issue.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 29:22-29:28
“We are having a challenge with our 911 center and response time.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 32:20-32:27
“We are having many police officers that will be hired by May to really address the shortage that we have in terms of police officers.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 32:29-32:42
“The numbers have not been there for over a year now.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 33:12-33:15
“We have a lot of trade going through here. Right. And Mexico is one of our closest partners.”
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“When you put tariffs, which really are taxes, we should just call them taxes on every country in the world.”
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“Our stock market has been crashing, and we've been seeing some really lows and highs in one day.”
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“I also worry that we might get into another recession, and we're seeing that through the taxes that are happening right now.”
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“There was no cost savings from the school closures. All those schools are still boarded up six years later.”
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“No money has been saved. You have to upkeep them.”
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“EPISD had has been at 90% [attendance rate] for years.”
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“Funding from the state comes from people in seats, from kids being in seats every single day.”
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“They said, within five years, we're gonna tackle these vacant properties.”
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“The state has really held hostage a lot of funding that could come into public school.”
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“They were promising more money in the basic allotment two years ago. That didn't happen.”
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“We're supporting [the vouchers] because this is not a big deal for our community. We have two private schools and they're at capacity.”
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“No, it will [affect public schools].”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 42:27-42:33
“That's gonna start dismantling public education in that sense.”
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“A lot of these private schools, they don't need to take you if they don't want to take you.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 42:32-42:43
“If you look at what happened with No Child Left Behind at the beginning of the 2000s, that was a way to reform schools.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 42:49-42:58
“You have a classroom of 22 students, and then five of them leave to a charter school or to a private school with their voucher.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 43:44-43:55
“That's less money going into that classroom.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 43:58-44:01
“Because those five kids left because now that average daily attendance that funds those schools is less money coming from the state.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 44:01-44:10
“It absolutely will pass.”
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“A private school might not even have capacity.”
El Paso District 2 Representative Joshua Acevedo Discusses Community Development and Challenges on 915 Talk | Uploaded April 8, 2025 | 45:05-45:08
“The amount of kids that they will be able to take, if they take the vouchers, if they admit them, that's less money going into the public…”
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“There's a lot of momentum behind the city council that just took office in January.”
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“We really need to focus on economic development.”
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“There's been a big project that has been talked about. We're going to talk about it next week in city council on the Deck Plaza.”
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“There's an expansion project of the freeway.”
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“It's putting a park on top of it.”
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“The expansion is going to happen through the state.”
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“There's housing opportunities. There's more green.”
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“There's a big role. And just this last week, we had a really big meeting in northeast El Paso.”
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“There's been a lot of people that are unhoused that live in that area.”
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“We're working with one of the churches in the Northeast to have an art project in front of them on a little, tiny, tiny, tiny pocket park.”
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