SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO.com) — Voters in the Tri-Valley School District have defeated a school bond issue.
The plan was to build a $15.6 million elementary school in Crooks, but now it’s back to the drawing board for the growing school district.
Critics were concerned that building in Crooks could divide the district.
A similar school bond issue in Tri-Valley also was defeated in a June election.
Tri-Valley is based in Colton, with about 900 students, and growing.
Tri-Valley’s challenges are in distinct contrast from the Sioux Falls School District, where a $190 million bond issue was overwhelmingly approved by the voters. The district is building a new high school and middle school. Construction of a new elementary school is waiting in the wings.
