Kindergarten registration is May 21
Green Thumb Greenhouse Plant Sale is May 17

Bike/Walk to School Week is May 12-16
Bike/Walk to School week is May 12-16. Sorensen and Fernan are organizing Walking School Buses for the week and Walk/Bike to School Day on Friday, May 16. Lakes Middle School is having bicycle and skateboard safety workshops after school and awarding prizes to students who walk and bike that week. Click on links below to see how you can be a safe biker or walker. For more information, contact Kirsten Pomerantz at 964-5304 or kpomer@bapper.net.

Proclamation                     Be a Safe Biker               Be a Safe Walker

School Plant Facilities Levy and Trustee Election is May 20

Voters will go to the polls May 20 to decide a two-year School Plant Facilities Levy that would finance four projects:

• A new Lakes Middle School on the existing 15th Street site
• A new elementary school to be built in the northwestern section of the district
• The continuation of computer purchases and other technology improvements
• Acquisition of property for future school sites

The largest portion of the levy would be for the new Lakes Middle School.

10-minute video presentation on levy proposal
 
More information on the levy proposal   

History of District 271 tax levies                 Comparison of Idaho school tax rates

Projected and actual costs of 2002 levy projects
                    
Interior photos of existing school

Artist Rendering of New Lakes    Site Plan    Floor Plan     Overall
                                      
Application for Absentee Ballot
(The above application may be printed off and mailed to Lynn Towne, Clerk, Coeur d'Alene School Board #271, 311 N. 10th Street, Coeur d'Alene ID 83814

Also on May 20 election, voters in Zones 4 and 5 will be electing trustees to serve a three-year term on the School Board. The candidates for Zone 4 are Diane Zipperer and Susan C. Francis. The candidates for zone 5 are H. Sid Fredrickson and Kevin J. Mylan.

Trustee Map for Zone 4                                                                 Trustee Map for Zone 5
Written Description of Trustee Zones

New elementary boundaries for Fall 2008      New middle school boundaries for Fall 2008

Elementary Map                     Middle School Map

(These maps were approved by the School Board on April 7.)

Applications for Computers For Kids are due May 31. Letter to Parents                          Application Form

CDA4Kids ... an after-school program at three elementary schools, funded by a federal 21st Century Community Learning Centers grant.