Just over a year after voters rejected their last spending proposal as too extravagant, Allen school district officials are proposing a scaled-back bond package that spends about half as much. But local property taxpayers—whose school tax bills have gone up 38 percent...
Voters in Allen turned out Saturday to defeat a big school bond, putting the brakes on the district’s runaway spending and debt. Allen Independent School District’s $422.8 million bond debt proposition was rejected 53-47 percent. The proposed spending plan, which was...