Anacortes School Bond

Ballots are in the mail this week and the fate of the Anacortes School District’s $62.9 million bond is in voters’ hands.

Some of those voters, nervous about the economy and their tax bills,…

*School District’s bond would pay for new construction, renovation
*Proposal faces economic hurdles

ANACORTES — Voters will cast their ballots next month on the…

Leaders say better buildings enhance student learning

Math teachers without classrooms, science labs that are too small and packed career and technology work spaces cramp student…

Armed with the results of a recently completed telephone survey, the Anacortes School District is looking at what to request in its next bond proposal.

“We’ve got our work cut out for us…

What would the bond buy?
The Anacortes School District’s $59.8 million bond request includes $23.9 million for a new career and technology education wing at Anacortes High School; $19.5…

After about 40 community meetings and more than a year of studies, the Anacortes School District’s $59.8 million bond request is in the voters’ hands.

Ballots for the special election are…

It takes three men nearly an hour to unload shipments to the Anacortes School District’s maintenance facility because there is no loading dock.

Trucks have to park on the street in front…

David Rodriguez was sitting in his car again Thursday afternoon waiting to pick up his second-grade twins and sixth-grader at Mount Erie Elementary School.

His wife drops the kids off in the…

Lynette Brower has to fit her entire classroom on a cart.

The Anacortes High School math teacher starts her day in a science classroom upstairs, travels to a social studies room down the hall…

To keep the 36 computers up and running, power cables descend from the ceiling enclosed in poles, and network cables snake along the perimeter of Jim Thompson’s media and technology classroom.