A Manor ISD elementary school on a clear morning, with shade trees along the front lawn and a sidewalk leading to the building

This November, vote FOR Props A & B

Strong Schools. Strong Community. One Manor.

Fix what we have. Build what we need. Props A and B fix the roofs, air conditioning, plumbing and wiring in the schools Manor ISD already owns; put seatbelt-equipped buses on the road for the 4,800 kids who ride every day; and rebuild Bluebonnet Trail Elementary, where the roof leaks and the foundation is deteriorating. Every project is on a campus we already have.

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Oct 5Last day to register

Oct 19–30Early voting, any Travis County site

Oct 23Mail-ballot application due

Nov 3Election Day, 7am–7pm

Why we're voting FOR

Elementary students raising their hands in a classroom while a teacher stands at the front

Because kids learn better in buildings that work.

A quarter of Manor ISD campuses have air conditioning at or past its useful life. Some electrical systems are 30 to 45 years old, and one school still runs on the cast-iron pipes it was built with. Prop A replaces what's worn out at every campus: roofs, HVAC, plumbing, wiring, lighting and secure entries.

Because Bluebonnet Trail can't be patched anymore.

Built in 1994, the school has a leaking roof, a deteriorating foundation, aging HVAC and plumbing, and recurring system failures. Prop A rebuilds it on the same campus, a school built to last for the neighborhood that's filling it up.

Because every kid on a bus deserves a seatbelt.

More than 4,800 Manor ISD students ride a bus every day. 39% of the fleet isn't fully equipped with seatbelts, and some buses are 27 years old. Prop A replaces the oldest buses with seatbelt-equipped ones before the 2029 state deadline.

Because a high school should hold its whole school.

Manor New Tech High is 85% full with a full middle school coming behind it. Manor High's ninth graders sit four miles from the rest of their classmates. Prop A adds 450 seats at New Tech and a new wing that brings Manor High together as one 9–12 campus.

See it for yourself

This is what "deferred maintenance" looks like.

Photographed at Bluebonnet Trail Elementary during the Citizens Facility Advisory Committee's 2026 campus tour.

The corner of a brick school building with a crack running from the top of the wall down into the concrete foundation — A crack runs the full height of this corner, through the brick and into the concrete foundation. The district's assessment found foundation deterioration, roof leaks and recurring system failures here.

A vertical crack running down the brick corner of a school building, up close — The same crack, up close. Patching the brick doesn't fix a deteriorating foundation, which is why Prop A rebuilds this school rather than repairing it again.

The edge of a concrete foundation slab breaking apart beside a chain-link fence, with rusted steel reinforcing bar exposed and a rusted pipe running along the wall — The edge of the foundation slab is breaking apart, exposing the rusting steel inside it.

A brick school wall meeting a stained concrete foundation — Where the foundation meets the brick. Bluebonnet Trail opened in 1994 and hasn't had a major renovation since 2008.

The base of a brick school wall with a stained concrete skirt, electrical conduit and control boxes mounted on the outside — Along the same wall: the foundation skirt, and the conduit and control boxes added to the outside of the building over the years.

Two ground-level air-conditioning condenser units inside a chain-link pen beside a brick school wall, with electrical conduit strapped to the outside of the building — Ground-level A/C units serve the classrooms behind this wall. Across the district, a quarter of campuses have air conditioning at or past its useful life.

Sections of sheet-metal air duct stacked outside a brick school wall behind a chain-link fence, their seams patched, on a cracked and stained concrete pad — Ductwork that lives outdoors, its seams patched and re-sealed, on a concrete pad that is cracked and stained beneath it.

A single glass entry door numbered 9 in a wall of tinted glass, with a puddle on the concrete walk in front of it — Entrance 9 after a rain: water standing on the walk where it meets the building.

The plan, in plain English

Two propositions. Every project on a campus Manor ISD already owns. Here's what changes at our schools.

See every project, campus by campus

Fix the buildings we have

Prop A

New roofs, HVAC, electrical, plumbing, lighting and secure entries where systems have worn out, concentrated at our oldest campuses, plus top-to-bottom renovations of Decker and Blake Manor elementaries.

Rebuild Bluebonnet Trail Elementary

Prop A

A new school on the same campus, replacing a 1994 building with roof leaks, foundation deterioration, accessibility gaps and recurring system failures.

Room for our high schoolers

Prop A

450 more seats and modern career-tech labs at Manor New Tech High, where robotics now meets in a former agriculture building. A new wing that makes Manor High one 9–12 campus. A fine arts classroom center so band, choir and theatre stop sharing one room.

Safer schools, safer buses

Prop A

Panic-alert systems, perimeter fencing, cameras, lockdown buttons and card access at every campus, and seatbelt-equipped buses for the 4,800 kids who ride every day.

Open Wildhorse as an elementary

Prop A

Move Manor Excel Academy into a renovated 9th Grade Center so Wildhorse can open as the neighborhood elementary it was built to be in 2028–2030, relieving Lagos Elementary, which is 96% full and heading to 152%.

Technology that works

Prop B

Prop B replaces the 5,861 student and teacher devices that are 7 to 10 years old and can't run current software or security, so the district's 1-to-1 program keeps working in every classroom.

A teacher leaning over a student's shoulder to help with a laptop in a bright classroom, other students working behind them

Proposition B

Working technology in every classroom, on every campus.

Prop B replaces the 5,861 student and teacher devices that are 7 to 10 years old and can't run current software or security. Every campus, every student in grades 2 through 12, every teacher: a device that works, so class time goes to learning instead of waiting on a laptop.

By law, devices have to be their own proposition on the ballot. Everything else in the plan is Prop A. Vote FOR both.

See Prop B on the ballot

On your tax bill

Even with the bond, the average school tax bill comes out lower than last year's.

Yes, the ballot will say THIS IS A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE. Since 2019, Texas law has put those exact words on every school bond proposition in the state, whether your bill goes up, down or stays the same. It's boilerplate, not a forecast.

Here's the actual math. The tax rate does go up, but the rate is only half of it. The other half is your home's value, and average home values in Manor ISD came down this year while the state raised the homestead exemption. Put those together and Manor ISD's own estimate is that the average homeowner's school tax bill still comes out about $9.56 a month lower than last year's, with the bond's full rate increase included.

65 or older, or disabled, with your homestead exemption on file? Your school taxes are frozen by state law. This bond can't raise them.

Why you can trust this plan

Independent oversight

A Bond Oversight Committee with public meetings tracks every project's budget, timeline and progress. Bond funds legally cannot be spent on anything voters didn't approve.

Built by neighbors, then rebuilt

A Citizens Facility Advisory Committee of parents, educators and business owners studied every campus and walked the buildings. After voters said no in 2025, it went back to the data and re-prioritized.

Fix first

Neighbors told us loud and clear: take care of what we have before building new. That's this plan. Every project is on an existing campus, and the only rebuild replaces a school with a deteriorating foundation.

Top marks for financial integrity

The Texas Education Agency has rated Manor ISD's financial management "Superior" three years running, with an "Above Standard" score of 89 in the newest rating.

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