The High Cost of Keeping Schools Open
White Bluffs faces a critical election to pass a 10-mill levy, with officials warning that failure means the loss of local high school facilities.
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Notices were posted this week for an election to be held on Saturday, February 14, regarding an extra 10-mill levy in the White Bluffs school district to pay for next year’s operations and reduce the district’s debt. A year ago, the district was $6,100 over its legal indebtedness. Through strict economy measures and a previous 10-mill levy, they managed to pay operating expenses and reduce the debt by $3,000. Directors warn that if this new levy fails, the district will likely be without high school facilities next year.
“If the ten mill levy fails, it is more than probable that the district will be without high school facilities next year.”
The precarious nature of school funding and the reliance on local levies for basic education remains a persistent tension in Washington state politics, echoing the same survival-driven discourse from 1925.
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