Vote Yes for Our Kids and Our Schools!

This bond, developed with extensive community input, will relieve overcrowding in our schools without raising anyone’s property tax rate. The Lake Washington School District is one of the fastest growing in the state, jumping from the sixth to fourth largest in just one year. Most schools have more students than available classrooms, making it difficult for our children to receive the best education possible. Classes and group lessons occur in places not designed for instruction. The district must use numerous portables, which is not a long-term solution. By prioritizing the most urgent capital needs, this bond will sustain the District’s educational excellence. It also demonstrates good fiscal planning. By paying off other district bonds and levies, we can improve our schools while maintaining the current tax rate.

Endorsed by the League of Education Voters, Seattle-King County Association of REALTORS, the Affordable Housing Council, the Master Builders Association of King and Snohomish Counties, the Lake Washington Education Association, and the Lake Washington PTSA Council. To see full list of elected officials and community leaders who endorsed this measure, visit www.vote4lwsdkids.org. Please join us in voting Yes for the LWSD Bond!

Submitted by: Amy Walen, John Marchione, and Don Gerend, vote4lwsdkids.org

All of our schools are full or overcrowded.  More than 3500 students attend classes in 154 portables across the district.  Thousands more students are expected by 2020. 

Instead of funding critically needed new classrooms, this bond directs 60% to tearing down and replacing three solidly built schools that are newer than many of our homes. The rebuilds will add little capacity to the district - leaving thousands of students in portables and overcrowded buildings.

This bond adds only 3 additional schools to the entire district: an elementary school in North Redmond and two schools at Redmond Ridge, but no additional schools for Kirkland or Sammamish.

The district knows that this plan will not provide adequate classroom space.  It plans to run bond measures in 2018 and 2022 asking for an additional $566,000,000 to address space shortages.

The $398,000,000 requested by this bond measure should be spent carefully and efficiently. We need more school buildings across the district - especially STEM and Choice Schools.  Hundreds of students are on waitlists for these high-demand schools. 

This bond will waste our tax dollars on extravagant building designs and unnecessary teardown/rebuilds!

Tell the district to spend your money wisely. Reject Proposition 1.

Submitted by: Susan Wilkins and Hussein Karmali, reject-lwsd-prop1.com

This bond increases capacity for 3,000 students, prioritizing urgent needs across the district. It uses cost-effective design principles -- rebuilding and expanding capacity at schools in Kirkland and Sammamish and adding new schools in Redmond. It is part of a fiscally responsible long-term plan to manage growth, reduce overcrowding, and to bring schools up to educational and safety standards while keeping tax rates level over time.  State matching funds will help our investment go further. 

Redmond will lose its beloved community center. This bond measure will convert the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center into a dedicated preschool facility.  This is the wrong solution for the district's classroom space shortage.

Your property taxes will increase. In 2015, taxpayers spent $37,700,000 for outstanding school construction bonds. If this bond measure passes, by 2019, annual school construction bond payments will be $70,000,000 and LWSD plans additional bond measures.

Get the facts at Reject-LWSD-Prop1.com

Complete text of measure

60% yes vote and a minimum turnout of 16,449 voters (Washington Constitution, art. VII, sec. 2(b))

For questions about this measure, contact: Kathryn Reith, Communications Director,
425-936-1342, kreith@lwsd.org