supplemental levies
The price of growth: West Ada seeks bond issue, school levy
Idaho’s largest school district is seeking a $95 million bond issue, and a two-year, $28 million renewal of a supplemental levy.
At $194.7 million, Idaho’s supplemental levy bill keeps rising
During the recession, schools used the local levies to offset unprecedented state budget cuts. The state’s K-12 budget is rebounding, but districts are still relying on help from local taxpayers.
A $216 million school election day looms next week
Here’s a rundown on Tuesday’s elections — which include 10 K-12 levy and bond issues from Idaho Falls to Kellogg, and a proposal to expand a community college’s taxing district.
Bonneville restores music, P.E. programs
The district is using a share of a $5.8 million-a-year supplemental levy to reinstate the elementary school programs, the Idaho Falls Post Register reported.
Madison school bond issue passes
The $26.9 million bond issue was the big-ticket item in Tuesday’s school elections. Check inside for a roundup of election-related news, including more results from Tuesday and what Teton Valley plans to do in November.
Next week, Idaho schools will seek $42.5 million in ballot measures
The biggest item on Tuesday’s ballot: a $26.9 million bond issue in the Madison School District in Eastern Idaho.
Why did so many bonds and levies pass so easily last week?
Last week’s school election results seem to square with what Idahoans had to say in a Boise State University survey in December.
Voters approve $695 million for schools
From a $172.5 million bond issue in Boise to a $90,000 supplemental levy in West Side, Tuesday was almost a clean sweep for Idaho schools. Only one ballot measure failed: a plant facilities levy in the Vallivue School District.
Tuesday’s school elections: Some last-minute links
Get informed before a busy day of school elections across Idaho.
Idaho’s $715 million school election day
At least 46 of Idaho’s 115 school districts will seek bond issues, plant facilities levies or supplemental levies on March 14. Idaho Education News and Boise State Public Radio partnered to produce this series — Financing the Future — on how the statewide elections will affect students, communities and taxpayers.