Anacortes School Bond

The Anacortes School District is asking voters to approve a 20-year $62.9 million bond in a special election Feb. 19. The bond will renovate Anacortes High School and Mount Erie Elementary School and build a new maintenance facility. The bond request is almost identical to the $59.8 million bond request that failed in April 2007. Read about what the bond will buy in a series published by the Anacortes American last year prior to the April election.

Anacortes School District’s $62.9 million bond goes to voters

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,…


Largest bond request in county history

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

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


Inside the Anacortes school bond

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…


School survey shows respondents favor same proposal

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…


Q & A: School bond costs, benefits examined

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…


District asking voters to ‘protect our investment’

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…


School bond would replace ‘woefully inadequate’ maintenance building

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…


Bond would unsnarl traffic in Mount Erie Elementary School dropoff zone, build new gym

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…


School bond would fund classrooms, stadium, and renovate high school library, Brodniak Hall

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…


Anacortes school bond would fund $23.9 million career and technology wing at high school

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.


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