Ensuring every student in the Lake Washington School District learns in a safe and healthy school is a responsibility we share as a community.  Prop. 1 will rebuild and expand our oldest schools, moving kids out of portables and into permanent classrooms while providing students with the space they need to thrive.

This levy focuses on aging buildings, ensuring that every school in our district meets current seismic standards, adopts the latest in health and safety guidelines, and can leverage modern education technology. If the heat goes out in February, kids aren’t learning much that day. By rebuilding aging facilities, we enable our kids to focus on learning and our teachers to focus on teaching.

Voting yes replaces 40 portable classrooms and provides improved educational environments for more than 3,000 students. This levy only asks for what we need for our oldest facilities, creating more sustainable and energy efficient buildings, which are less expensive to maintain. 

Investing in our students and schools not only benefits our children, but also strengthens our local community. All students deserve access to safe, healthy, and productive learning environments. Please join community leaders, elected officials, and your neighbors in voting yes for our schools!

Submitted by: Kelli Curis, Angela Birney, Kali Clark, Vote4lwsdkids.org

There are three good reasons to vote “No” on this levy!

One: This is the worst time to increase property taxes! Inflation is high; food, gas, and

housing costs are rising; a recession and layoffs are threatening. Families are struggling to pay bills.  This levy asks for an astounding $676,900,000 to rebuild only four schools: Evergreen ($220,000,000), Kamiakin ($190,000,000), Smith ($130,000,000) and Alcott ($95,000,000). This levy is a new, additional tax averaging $1,285 per year for the next 6 years on a median priced home!

Two: Location, Location, Location!  Evergreen Middle School and Alcott Elementary are located in rural King County – far from the communities where most families live. Hundreds of students are bussed miles to these remote schools daily from Redmond and Sammamish because there isn’t adequate school capacity within the cities.  Rebuilding these schools at their current sites commits families to 40 years of traveling out to rural King County instead of having students walking or biking to a nearby neighborhood school.

Three: A “No” vote isn’t a vote against education.  It’s a vote demanding that LWSD build schools inside the community where they are accessible and conveniently located. It tells LWSD to spend our tax dollars wisely.

Submitted by: Susan Wilkins, ParentsForEducation@yahoo.com

Our priority is the safety and well-being of all students. These schools are located where they can meet the community’s needs – serving Kirkland, Sammamish, and Redmond – and every one of these schools is over-capacity, with Alcott at 131%.

Delays would only increase building costs. This measure is largely offset by expiring bonds and levies, keeps our local education tax rate stable, and below many neighboring districts. Get the facts at lwsd.org - Vote yes!

Submitted by: Kelli Curis, Angela Birney, Kali Clark, Vote4lwsdkids.org

Four schools for $676,900,000 with nearly half the funds spent on rural schools is misguided! In comparison, the 2016 LWSD bond measure built 6 schools (Juanita HS, Timberline MS, and 4 elementaries) for $398,000,000 in communities where they’re needed.

The median price for a new middle school is $80,000,000. Timberline MS was completed in 2019 for $77,000,000.  Middle schools shouldn’t cost $200,000,000.  This levy will result in a significant tax increase that many cannot afford.

Submitted by: Susan Wilkins, ParentsForEducation@yahoo.com

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Simple majority (Wash. Const. art. VII, sec. 2(a))

For questions about this measure, contact: Shannon Parthemer, Communications Director, (425) 936-1342, sparthemer@lwsd.org