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Nearly $100 million gone: How Austin ISD spent bond money on schools it will soon close

  • 1.  Nearly $100 million gone: How Austin ISD spent bond money on schools it will soon close

    Posted 01-16-2026 11:55 AM

    Just past the corner where Rosewood Avenue becomes Oak Springs Drive, a fenced construction site sits empty. Pipes and cement slabs rise from the ground, physical remnants of more than $48 million in improvements to a school that is now scheduled to close. Those unfinished upgrades at Oak Springs Elementary were funded by a $2.4 billion infrastructure and technology bond approved by voters in 2022, making it the most expensive project tied to a campus the Austin school district plans to shutter.

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    Michael Spurlin
    ATPE
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