EDITORIAL : YES ON MEASURE K GLENDALE SCHOOL OFFICIALS HAVE DONE THEIR HOMEWORK.THE Proposition BB fiasco threatens to sink all future bond measures, and that would be a true loss for students and teachers in the Glendale Unified School District The Glendale Unified School District is a school district based in Glendale, California, United States. The school district serves the city of Glendale, portions of the city of La Cañada and the unincorporated communities of Montrose and La Crescenta. . The much smaller and much better-managed Glendale Unified School District has the unfortunate timing of having its own separate school-bond issue on the June 3 ballot. It would be a real shame if voters in Glendale and La Crescenta vote down this $186 million bond issue simply because of undeserved un·de·served adj. Not merited; unjustifiable or unfair. un  de·serv guilt by association Noun 1. guilt by association - the attribution of guilt (without proof) to individuals because the people they associate with are guiltyguilt, guiltiness - the state of having committed an offense with the Los Angeles school The Los Angeles School of Urbanism is an academic movement emerged during the mid-1980s, loosely based at the University of Southern California and UCLA, that poses a challenge to the dominant Chicago School of Urbanism. district's hide-and-seek bond issue on the April ballot. The difference between the two school districts, and the difference between the two bond issues, are day-and-night contrasts. Glendale school leaders have done their homework and have come up with a clean, well-documented proposal worthy of support - and lacking nasty surprises. The bulk of bond money from Measure K - $156 million - will help renovate the district's classrooms and campuses, many of which are more than 50 years old and have never been updated. The remaining $30 million will be used for building classrooms to alleviate overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. and adding either a middle school or high school. Saying yes to Measure K will raise property taxes an average of $49.91 per $100,000 of assessed valuation annually for the life of the 35-year bonds. With a student enrollment of more than 30,000, Glendale Unified is L.A. County's third-largest school district. The district, which includes Glendale, La Crescenta, Montrose and the western portion of La Canada Flintridge, has grown by more than 10,000 students since 1985. District officials held 27 public meetings to hear from parents, residents and taxpayers. They studied extensively the needed repairs at four campuses and used those results to help set a figure for each school. A key selling point selling point n. An aspect of a product or service that is stressed in advertising or marketing. Noun 1. selling point - a characteristic of something that is up for sale that makes it attractive to potential customers is that the last time this district went to taxpayers on behalf of children was in 1964. That bond measure passed to rebuild Hoover and Glendale high schools Glendale High School can refer to:
We support passage of Measure K on the June 3 ballot in Glendale. |
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