Local Bond

Repairing Aging Local Schools

While our neighborhood schools provide quality instruction that prepares students for college and careers, local schools were built decades ago and need repairs and upgrades to protect student safety and support quality education.

Each day over 2,000 local students attend class in 80 portable classrooms, many of which are deteriorating, well beyond their useful life and need to be replaced. Outdated classrooms and labs need updates to meet current educational, accessibility, and safety standards. Additional classrooms are needed to relieve student overcrowding.

Renewing Expiring School Funding

To fix and repair CRPUSD schools, the Board of Trustees placed a school improvement bond measure on the November 2024 ballot that is projected to simply extend the current combined CPRUSD bond tax rate, without increasing current tax rates, to generate approximately $91.5 million to fund local school repairs and upgrades, including:

• Replace leaky roofs, aging plumbing and HVAC systems
• Upgrade science, technology, engineering, math and career training labs and facilities
• Remove hazardous materials including asbestos and lead pipes
• Provide updated equipment for classrooms, science and computer labs and libraries
• Replace outdated, aging and deteriorating temporary portable classrooms

Mandatory Fiscal Accountability & Local Control

The local school funding renewal measure would continue existing fiscal accountability requirements, including:

• All funds raised will be controlled locally, will go to our local schools, and cannot be taken away by the States
• By law, none of the money raised by the measure will be used for administrators’ salaries.
• An independent citizens’ oversight committee and mandatory annual audits ensure the money is spent as promised

Learn More!

To learn more about the steps CRPUSD took to plan for the future of our neighborhoods schools, take a look at the links below.