On May 12th, voters in Lakeville Area School District approved the Growing Together bond referendum, and the vote was 54 to 45%.

our voters have chosen to invest in the success of our students

We presently have literacy tutors, but no math tutors. IXL is a cost-effective way to strategically fill this gap.

IXL is an ISD 194 vetted, standards-aligned, field-tested app, which is used in grades 6 through 12 and has historically been used in our elementary schools.

while we've had multiple conversations as a board around a $3 million levy, a $139 million levy, academic reports and dashboards, but yet we are not going to have a dialogue around 10 curriculum items that will be in place for the next 10 years for over 12,000 students each year

this is a strategic decision that's going to last for the next 10 years and it's embedded in a consent agenda and we're just voting yes or no

We need to understand what it is we're actually giving a thumbs up or a thumbs down to here.

I trust the experts to know how we're going to best serve the students based on the standards.

it's also an opportunity to dispel some narratives that might be in the public that kids are being indoctrinated one way or another

most importantly, we want to make sure that that resource is aligned to the standards at the level of rigor that we would expect students to be able to perform at

The READ Act really talks about making sure that all students start reading at grade level, including our special education and our multilingual students.