School Funding
Unfortunately school funding in Colorado is inadequate to meet the needs of most districts. This has left the Thompson School District with hundreds of millions of dollars of deferred maintenance, unaddressed accessibility needs, and some schools without appropriate security measures to ensure students and staff stay safe. I have been committed to working to maximize our resources as much as possible and will continue pushing for novel funding mechanisms to help meet our district’s many needs. We have been successful in getting several grants to help fund projects such as the expansion of the Thompson Career Campus and the renovation of the playground at Peakview Academy at Conrad Ball. We have also used the funds from the 2018 bond to make improvements at all the schools in the district, but there is much more work to be done.
I am a strong supporter of the currently proposed no tax increase bond measure which will be on the ballot this November. This bond will provide the district with $99 million of much needed funds to help address some of our most critical needs. The money will be spent to upgrade security at the schools that are still without current upgrades, fund the expansion of Ivy Stockwell and Berthoud Elementary Schools, and address other pressing maintenance and accessibility needs.
Please click below to learn more about the TSD Proposed 2025 Bond Measure. You can also click on the link for the Colorado School Finance Project to learn about school funding in general and ways you can help.
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