"Even if both of these levies pass the state is still going to be short $40 million for the district's 2019-20 school year thanks to the state changing how they allocate education funding as well as last September's 10.5% pay raise they knew they would not have the funds to cover without further legislative action."

Who wants to bet that bottom end students today will still be bottom end students in 5 years?

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Compared to which other students? For example: if in five years the bottom 10% in the SSD are outperforming the bottom 20% of students in other districts, would they REALLY be at the bottom end?

You help one worst performing student, there's just another one! It's hopeless, stop throwing taxpayer dollars down this rathole. Nuff said.