Facts and statistics from school district don't add up to bond passage

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Cheney High School was built for how many students? The district says it is still 900, and I say by 1994 it was brought up to 1,200.

Let’s go back to 1972. According to the Cheney Free Press ( 3/23/72), the capacity was about 900. In 1983 according to the Cheney Free Press (3/3/83) a bond failed for 20 new classrooms serving 1,200 students.

In 1992, after two bond failures, a bond that I worked on passed, which doubled the size of the high school and added 23 classrooms (Cheney Free Press (1/16/92). This brought the capacity to about 1,200. When the district says the capacity is still 900, why...

 

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