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District 112 Voters Reject Referendum
by Tim Moran
March 15, 2016

Voters in North Shore School District 112 overwhelmingly [2-1 margin] voted down a bond issue that would have called for a reconfiguration of the school system and created one middle school campus on the southwest side of town. With just under 9,000 votes in at 9:44 p.m., 68.57 percent have voted ‘No,’ while 31.43 have voted ‘Yes.’ That’s 6,136 “no” and 2,812 “yes.” “The results are clear. The community has voted, and the people have soundly rejected the District’s vision,” read a statement released by Citizens Against the 112 Referendum, the most outspoken anti-referendum group prior to the election. “Our community values what it has always valued: neighborhood schools, educational quality, and financial responsibility.” If the District’s bond issue had passed, [these] five schools would have closed…READ MORE