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Students and community speakers urge a ‘yes’ vote on Battle Ground replacement levy
Summary
At the April 14 Battle Ground School District board meeting, students, parents and staff urged voters to approve a replacement levy, warning of multimillion-dollar cuts to programs and services if it fails. Ballots are due next Tuesday.
At the Battle Ground School District Board of Directors meeting on April 14, students, parents and staff made public appeals for passage of the district’s replacement levy, which appears on ballots due next Tuesday.
Student Rye Dilley, of Tewkes Valley Middle School, told the board the levy funds day-to-day supports for students and warned that, according to the district’s proposed budget, “if the levy were to fail” reductions to safety, instruction, enrichment and operations could “total over $20,000,000 going into next school year.” He urged the community to “vote yes” and called the district “a future worth voting for.”
The levy is a replacement for an expiring levy, Dilley said, and the district would see…
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