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| East Lansing $53,000,000 Bond Defeated | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 20 2012, 06:47 PM (282 Views) | |
| LPS Reformer | May 20 2012, 06:47 PM Post #1 |
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The schools exist to educate, not employ.
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Link East Lansing Schools Looking for Plan After Bond Failure The East Lansing School District is looking to reassess its options after voters rejected a $53 million bond extension Tuesday night. Superintendent David Chapin is disappointed nearly 53 percent rejected the proposal. But while he feels the bond was the best step for the district, he also called the primary democracy in action. Chapin reflected on the vote Wednesday. "Did people not understand or did people understand and simply vote the way that they did because they did understand, and I'm probably leaning toward the latter there," he said. "I think people did understand the issue and registered their vote and we have an outcome, so we move forward." The bond proposal sought to relocate sixth graders to MacDonald Middle School, reconfigure five elementary schools, improve technology for all students and repurpose Red Cedar Elementary. According to Chapin, the district needs to take a collective breath, step back and formulate a new plan. The vote may be over, but facility and technology problems remain. "We don't have a timeline set up," Chapin explained. "There was no thinking if this doesn't pass, then we're going to move to (this)" Thoman Baumann, who helped mount opposition to the bond extension, doesn't mind starting over. He believes the district can reconstruct its schools for less money and without closing Red Cedar. "I think we're at a point where we can look again at the needs of the district and we can put the right priorities in front of the decision makers," Baumann said. Chapin says the board has already resolved to shut down Red Cedar before 2016. He says its unlikely this vote will change that, but the board will have to weigh in. "I am concerned that without this construction, without this technology, that we've delayed some costs that are going to have to be dealt with now in the short term," Chapin said. But he hasn't given up on facing those challenges with a united front. Both he and opponents of the bond believe they can reach consensus. "I hope so," Baumann said. Chapin says the primary shows the community is energized and invested in its public schools. Groups for and against the bond mounted substantial campaigns before Tuesday's primary. |
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