Schools
D67 Will Put Referendum On November Ballot
The district has whittled the amount it will request from voters; this will be a second request, since voters turned thumbs down in the March election.
After this past spring, and defeated it narrowly, the district's board of education evaluated what to do next.
This past week, the board approved two resolutions to place a referendum on the November ballot, albeit in scaled-back form, according to the Morton Grove Champion.
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The district would be asking voters for $1.7 million less than the $9.7 million it asked for in the spring, the newspaper said.
District 67 had place two referendums on the ballot earlier this year, and In a Patch poll on March 23 which asked readers "What Should D67 Do Now?", respondents split between the options "put a scaled-back referendum on the November ballot" and "do nothing; the voters have spoken." Both options got 32 votes each; only six voted for "put the referendum back on the ballot in substantially the same form."
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