Articles Tagged: 2025 School Bond

Iowa state Sen. Molly Donahue is calling for the resignation of three Cedar Rapids school board members after a multimillion dollar school bond referendum failed voter approval Tuesday.

Multimillion dollar school bond referendums failed to garner voter approval Tuesday in the Williamsburg and Central City school districts.

At Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, the kitchen is a “maze” said Dana Visek, one of the kitchen managers at the school. More preparation space is needed, and meals are served on single-use plates because the high school does not have a dishwasher. All dishes used for cooking and serving are washed by hand in a three hole sink.

A $117 million school bond referendum — created with more than a year of community input — is headed to voters in the Cedar Rapids school district Nov. 4.

School districts rely on the voter-approved property tax to fund facility needs

Cedar Rapids school board candidates on their support of the bond on the ballot Nov. 4

An almost $8 million school bond referendum would modernize and expand classrooms to better serve students enrolled in work-based learning classes in the industrial technology, family and consumer science, and agriculture if approved by voters in the Williamsburg Community School District.

Three Cedar Rapids middle schools were rejected as satellite voting sites — a temporary absentee voting location available before Election Day — because of accessibility issues.

A $7 million school bond referendum that would fund a new secure entrance to the elementary school and classroom renovations and repairs is headed to voters in the Central City Community School District Nov. 4.

The Cedar Rapids school board Monday approved a resolution ordering an election on a $117 million bond proposal after receiving 6,199 signatures from voters in the district, verified by board secretary Jillian Schulte.

Also in this week’s Government Notes roundup, the Central City school district is pursuing a $7 million bond referendum.

Goal almost met with more than 5,000 signatures collected to get bond to fund facility needs placed on November ballot

A committee named BELIEVE in CR Schools to begin collecting voter signatures to get the issue on the ballot this November