Bond elections

The idea of a new Ames High School cleared its latest hurdle Monday night when a community feedback group recommended constructing a new building to the school board.

While Wylie Independent School District students returned to class Monday, the district school board made a decision that could affect them for generations to come.

Leaders with the Socorro Independent School District will seek voter approval on a $448.5 million bond measure.

Victoria school board members agreed late Thursday night to ask voters in November to approve a $141.2 million capital improvement plan.

After pondering — and in some cases wrestling — with the proposed bond issue, the Ector County Independent School District Board of Trustees approved calling a Nov. 7 bond issue election for $291,172,291 during a special meeting Thursday.

The Leander, Texas, school board Thursday night unanimously approved putting before voters in November a $454 million bond package, the first in 10 years.

New Jersey lawmakers are seeking to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to upgrade vocational-technical schools to meet a statewide shortage of middle-skilled workers.

The Pottsboro Independent School District's board of trustees gave its seal of approval Tuesday night on a $54.7 million bond package meant to update many of the district's facilities.

November's ballot will feature $495 million in public improvement bonds after City Council agreed Wednesday to send the package to Houston voters.

MAPLETON, Minn. -- Leaders of Maple River Public Schools hope a new tax credit will make their citizens more willing to support a tax increase to build a new school for their students.

There will be a $100 million bond to fix Midland's roads and other aging infrastructure on the November ballot.

About $1 million will go to service the city's street bond debt, leaving the Duluth with $2.8 million for actual work.

A significant bond issue is on the town's special election ballot on Tuesday, Sept. 19.

Voters turned down a pair of bond and sinking fund proposals for Ubly Community Schools at the polls Tuesday, according to unofficial election results.

Residents of the Carlton School District sent a strong message Tuesday when 71 percent voted against a $23.6 million proposal to create a combined pre-K-12 school for Carlton students at the district's South Terrace site.

Dalton, Ga., voters will decide this year if they want a new school with a price somewhere north of $50 million.

The Texas cities are preparing to ask for about $2.5 billion of bonds in November.

A special election will decide if Ardmore City Schools will be able to make needed upgrades to its schools, buy new buses to replace outdated ones and build a new district performing arts center.

Stafford, Texas, voters will be asked on Nov. 7 to approve a $62 million bond proposal that would include building a new middle school and administration building for the Stafford Municipal School District as well as a magnet school.

Voters in two school districts, Green Ridge R-VIII and Dresden R-XIII, went to the polls Tuesday to make their choices known in the special election.