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After bond defeat, Midland board pauses new vote, plans community-driven strategic process and proceeds with robotics facility purchase
Summary
After the May bond defeat, Midland Public Schools trustees said June 16 they will not immediately return to the ballot and will instead pursue a facilitated, community-driven strategic planning process before proposing new facility funding.
Midland Public Schools leaders said June 16 they will step back from immediately pursuing another facilities bond and instead launch a community-centered strategic planning process to define student outcomes and align facility proposals to those goals.
President Rausch and Penny Miller Nelson told the board they had begun seeking an independent facilitator to lead broad-based community engagement. Rausch said the district needs "comprehensive engagement from our community" and that any ballot timeline for November would be too compressed: "to get something on the November ballot, we would have to have any application completed, August 10," a deadline the board said was too soon to run a deliberative outreach process.
Why it matters
The May bond proposal was defeated in the community. Board members and public commenters said that defeat reflects a gap in trust and in the district's…
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