Our community partners with our school district to ensure bright futures for all our students and our entire community. We are all Yorkville Foxes. However, some of our facilities are starting to hold our students back, which is why the referendum is necessary.

 

Our top-notch music program doesn’t have a high school auditorium, and band is frequently taught in a hallway. The district doesn’t have space for student services, forcing kids to receive support in hallways and any unused corner they can find. Special education is crammed into half classrooms without accessible bathrooms and the necessary therapy and sensory spaces. Families are turned away from early childhood programs because the district cannot accommodate more students. They can’t provide all the extracurricular activities we are requesting. And our athletic teams don’t have the practice space they need.

 

Voting yes on the referendum will improve educational, support, and extracurricular spaces for all students and teachers. 

 

The district will be able to increase and improve spaces for music and performing arts throughout the district, including a new performing arts center at the high school, to provide better opportunities for students in music, theater, and performing arts. 

 

They will be able to increase and improve dedicated spaces for teachers and staff, including improved teacher workspaces, to support stronger relationships between teachers and students and increase academic performance. 

 

The district will be able to optimize and increase space for student services, specialized instruction, and health services, leading to healthier students with stronger social and emotional skills. 

 

They will be able to expand and improve programming spaces for early childhood, accelerated learning, special education, dual language, and collaborative learning. 

 

And the district will be able to increase gymnasium space at elementary and middle schools and build a new fieldhouse at the high school, accommodating year-round use which increases students’ wellness and athletic opportunities.

 

Vote yes to give our students the quality educational environments they deserve.