The Irving Independent School District is currently $1.1 billion in debt.
We support it by paying property taxes that are around 70% higher than the property taxes for the entire city.
Irving schools are not great. Enrollment is on a steady decline and schools are closing.
Irving ISD’s response? A push to improve the schools and raise the low ratings?
Nope. Rather, they put on the ballot a proposal for massive amount of new debt for construction projects. Bonds that would add $1.5 billion to the credit card, which would balloon their total debt to $2.6 billion. The taxes that would be locked in from this would contribute to making life unaffordable for working people (seniors are except from school property tax hikes) for years to come.
Notice that no one is promising it’ll improve educational outcomes. It’s not about education for our kids.
Really, the whole bond proposal makes no sense, until you realize it is actually a get rich quick scheme for contractors who know how to work the system.
Who are they?
It’s easy to find out. Just look at the filing for the Political Action Committee that is blanking our city with pro-bond ads, polls, signs, mailers, and propaganda, the “Vote for Irving Kids” Political Action Committee:
The PAC should be renamed, “Vote for Big Contractors to Get Rich PAC.”
Here’s the self-dealing cabal who wants to milk taxpayers for a generation to get rich now off of projects we don’t need (but will make them wealthy):
EMA Engineering — This company does mechanical, electrical, plumbing, technology design, and construction administration. Irving ISD lists EMA among recommended architectural and engineering firms.
Grace Design Studios — A contractor specializing in designing K–12 education buildings, who did work for Irving ISD last year.
PBK Architects — An architectural and engineering firm specializing in educational facilities. PBK is designing Irving ISD’s $123 million Career and Technical Education Center under the 2023 bond program.
WRA Architects — Designed Irving ISD’s Crockett Middle School, a $100 million project (which is ugly as sin), and the $13.7 million Magda A. Hernández Institute of Wellness and Professional Learning project. WRA also got a $93,000 contract to
railroad throughplan our bond approval and election communication.Irving Countertop (Randy Randle) — Randle is the PAC Treasurer, and his company Irving Countertop does work for school buildings like Celina High School, a project they did with PBK Architects.
All these folks are self-interested: they are hoping to benefit from school capital spending.
THEY DO NOT CARE ABOUT IRVING KIDS.
THEY WANT A PAYDAY FROM OUR TAXES PAYING DOWN MASSIVE DEBT.
What they are not is actual members of the Irving ISD school community. The PAC does not have any real people behind it. There are no small donors. No concerned citizens. Just businesses who stand to profit from the big contracts that result.
That should tell you everything.
These bonds are not the community pressing for something that is needed. As we detailed in a previous post, the contractor cabal is driving the bus. WRA Architects were even given $93,000 to serve essentially as political consultants to make sure that a huge bond proposal got approval from the Facility Planning Committee and then to run the PR campaign to get the bond approved. It’s an incredible contract. Then they turned around did a terrible job communicating, unless you think hiding information from the public is the best way to communicate. It isn’t, however it is the best way to ram a corrupt bond through. Read about all that here.
Our tax dollars went to WRA Architects for bond planning … so they could use our own money against us to hike up our taxes to make themselves rich. Our tax dollars even go directly to fund signs that are technically allowed only because don’t say “vote for.”
They even sent out this mailer — paid for by your tax dollars — which is indistinguishable from a political mailer, just without the “vote for”:
These bonds are a massive scam. It is government of contractors, by contractors, and for contractors. They go around doing this all over Texas.
For example, WRA Architects just got done doing this in eastern Dallas County:
In 2025 WRA gave $20,000 to the Vote Yes Mesquite ISD PAC, and then got to design a $58 million school.
In 2024 in Sunnyvale, WRA gave $2,500 to a PAC, and then got to design a $48 million facility.
In Garland in 2023, WRA gave $10,000 to a PAC, and then got to design a $72 million building and a $62 million building.
Good business if you can get it! Relatively small political contributions gets WRA Architects contracts worth millions.
It is also corrupt.
“Keep Irving Dirty” should be the slogan of these contractors who want to get paid by tricking us into going into massive debt:
More information on the bond election here:
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