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The 2024 Denver Public School Bond does not increase taxes and provides critical updates to our schools.
This bond will replace leaking roofs, will keep our kids safer by addressing outdated electrical and fire systems, and will allow DPS to install air conditioning in more than 20 schools that don’t have any air conditioning.
In a fractured political environment, this is something we can all support.
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Learning environments are the foundation for student achievement.
Many factors contribute to student success, but they are all set atop the one basic need: a good learning environment.
A diverse group of more than sixty community leaders worked with DPS staff to sort through more than $2 billion of recommendations. The discussions were robust, sometimes very heated, not because of ideology but because they all knew what was at stake. After cutting more than a billion dollars worth of projects, what’s left in this bond package are essential DPS needs.
The result of this long community process is a proposal focused on:
○ maintaining and renovating existing school buildings, such as addressing outdated electrical and fire systems;
○ providing cooling systems for the remaining schools that lack air conditioning; recorded temperatures in these buildings can be as high as 92 degrees;
○ building and improving spaces for workforce and career readiness, as well as vocational, technical, and trade programs;
○ expanding and improving mental, behavioral, and physical health clinics.
This measure will improve our classrooms for teachers and students. It will reduce class sizes in parts of the district with overcrowding while also adding badly needed cooling systems to classrooms that sometimes reach 92 degrees during the school day.
This DPS bond won’t raise taxes and will save millions in taxpayer dollars by lengthening the useful life of existing buildings. Many of the projects in the bond are legally required, which means that if the bond fails, DPS will be forced to pay for those facility improvements with funds that would otherwise go to attracting and retaining quality teachers and improving classroom instruction.