BALLOTS BENEFIT SCHOOLS NUMEROUS CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS GO FORWARD WITH BONDS' PASSAGE.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - Construction of new schools and renovations of older campuses will get under way in two Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley school districts after voters passed financing measures to pay for the projects. Antelope Valley Union High School District The Antelope Valley Union High School District (A.V.U.H.S.D.) is located in the Antelope Valley area of California, in northern Los Angeles County. The district includes eight public high schools, one trade school, and two continuation high schools in the cities of Palmdale voters passed the $103.6 million school construction bond Measure V, paving the way for construction of William J. ``Pete'' Knight High School in Littlerock and three smaller campuses. In the Mojave Unified School District A unified school district is a school district which includes both primary school (kindergarten through middle school or junior high) and high school (grades 9-12). In Illinois, these districts are called unit school districts. , voters approved a districtwide parcel tax to pay for modernizing schools, and California City residents voted to pass a $16 million bond measure to build a high school and elementary school elementary school: see school. in California City. It was the second try for both districts, and officials in both districts attributed the success to more information getting out to voters. ``I've got to imagine that people are becoming more informed. As much as no one likes to increase taxes, the voting public is becoming informed as to why this is a necessary thing, why the district has to go for a bond to build and modernize'' said Donita Winn, a parent who chaired the Antelope Valley Union High School District's campaign committee. ``My guess is we educated people better and got more information out. Folks in both communities worked really hard and we had more people involved this time,'' Mojave Superintendent Larry Phelps said. ``Our committee folks did a lot of phone calling, and we got information out through the media and radio.'' The Antelope Valley Union High School District passed Measure V under Proposition 39, the 2000 ballot measure that lowered the approval level needed to 55 percent from the standard two-thirds vote. A $91 million high school construction bond measure failed to pass in November 1999. After supporters spent about $120,000, to negligible  This article or section is written like a personal reflection or and may require .Please [ improve this article] by rewriting this article or section in an . opposition, it garnered 63 percent of the vote but fell short of the two- thirds majority needed. The Mojave district's two measures required two-thirds of the vote because neither fit the standards enacted by Proposition 39: one was a parcel tax and the other covered only a portion of the school district. ``What's good about two-thirds is you know you really got a solid backing. We are really pleased with that,'' Phelps said. Antelope Valley Union High School District's bond measure will tax homeowners $29.25 per $100,000 assessed valuation for the next 30 years. The money will pay for the construction of $67.3 million Knight High School proposed for 70th Street East and Avenue R-8. It would house 3,000 students. The bond measure will also pay for the construction of the R. Rex Parris continuation high school A continuation high school is an alternative to a comprehensive high school primarily for students who are considered at-risk of not graduating at the normal pace. The requirements to graduate are the same but the scheduling is more flexible to allow students to earn their credits at Avenue Q and sixth Street East, and two campuses, one in Palmdale and one in Lancaster, for Phoenix High School, the district's last stop for expelled students. Funds also will pay for modernizing Antelope Valley, Palmdale and Quartz Hill high schools Quartz Hill High School is a public, co-educational high school located in Lancaster, California. Founded in 1964, it is the third oldest comprehensive high school in the Antelope Valley High School District (AVHSD). . Those three schools will share $24.7 million in modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, funds. If California voters in November pass a school construction bond measure and provide matching funds Noun 1. matching funds - funds that will be supplied in an amount matching the funds available from other sources cash in hand, finances, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource - assets in the form of money , the district would also be able to build another high school in west Antelope Valley; expand capacity at Highland High School Highland High School or Highlands High School may refer to: In the United States:
Both Knight and Parris high schools have received state approval, and construction on the Knight campus could begin in the next six months. In the Mojave district, voters in California City approved paying a new tax to finance a $16 million bond measure to build an elementary school and a high school in California City. The tax will add $160 a year in property taxes to a house assessed at $100,000. Voters throughout the Mojave school district also passed a districtwide five-year, $25.50-per-parcel tax that will raise $1.5 million a year for renovating schools - $450,000 for Mojave and $1.1 million for California City - in each of the five years it is in effect. Phelps said construction on the California City schools could begin in a couple of years. CAPTION(S): box Box: Antelope Valley |
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