{"id":14150,"date":"2024-11-01T01:40:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/?p=14150"},"modified":"2024-11-01T01:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T01:40:54","slug":"issue-19-tps-requests-a-yes-vote-on-issue-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/2024\/11\/01\/issue-19-tps-requests-a-yes-vote-on-issue-19\/","title":{"rendered":"ISSUE 19: TPS Requests a Yes Vote on Issue 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Several dozen local church pastors, community leaders, past city mayors, on Thursday, October 24 at the Tabernacle Church to urge citizens to cast a \u201cyes\u201d vote for Issue 19 on the November 5 general election ballot.<\/p>\n

\u201cIssue 19 is focused on the belief that every student is prepared to succeed,\u201d said Tabernacle Pastor Calvin Sweeney as he opened up the press conference.<\/p>\n

Issue 19 is a 5.8 mill new money request to support district operations and provide ongoing maintenance to buildings and facilities and the initial renovation of the Scott Park campus. It is the first new money request Toledo Public Schools has sought in 11 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is time for a resurrection,\u201d said TPS Superintendent Romules Durant, EdD, of the renovations that will occur at Scott Park including \u201ceducation, recreation and residential.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Romules Durant, TPS Superintendent, explains the Issue 19 levy request<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Durant, who was recently received recognition as the 2024 Urban Educator of the Year at the Council of the Great City Schools 68th<\/sup> annual fall conference, attributed his award to TPS\u2019 ongoing ability to innovate while working with community partners \u201cto create education opportunities\u201d without consistently asking the public for more funds.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re excited about the innovation and the revitalization of Scott Park,\u201d he said, noting that Scott Park had been closed for 25 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have the opportunity to make things great in the city of Toledo,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The campus will include three new magnet high schools that will allow students to matriculate from seventh grade to bachelor\u2019s degree. The project includes partnerships with Owens Community College and the University of Toledo both of which signed a letter of intent with TPS for the project in February of this year.<\/p>\n

The three new magnet schools will include:<\/p>\n

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  1. College of Business Academy<\/li>\n
  2. College of Education and Social Services Academy \u2013 (training teachers, school counselors and fire fighters etc.)<\/li>\n
  3. Construction and Architectural Academy<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

     <\/p>\n

    The $100 million Scott Park project will include a fitness center, dining hall, recreational athletic dome, administrative suites, outdoor and indoor construction training facilities, three academies, child-care center, ministry office, residential facilities and fishing pond, among other amenities. The campus will also be a part of a two-park system that is connected to Ottawa Park via the bike trail.<\/p>\n

    An $84 million annual return to the community is anticipated from the project via the new opportunities and work being done at Scott Park. It will bring an estimated 3,000 jobs to the campus.<\/p>\n

    \u201cYes, we do need this,\u201d said former Mayor Carty Finkbeiner. \u201cWe can\u2019t say children are number one in our lives unless we help them get the training and education they need.<\/p>\n

    \u201cThis is about an investment in kids and turning the community in a positive way,\u201d said former Mayor Mike Bell. \u201cThis is all about the future \u2013 let\u2019s just move forward and get Issue 19 passed.\u201d<\/p>\n

    \u201cThis is about the fact that [TPS] has been good stewards of your money,\u201d added state Senator Paula Hicks-Hudson of the fact that the school district has not sought new money in such a long time.<\/p>\n

    Issue 19 is a request for a 5.8 mill bond and levy that would cost the owner of a $100,000 home about an additional $70 per year for the next 30 years for the bond and about $133 for the levy for the next five years.<\/p>\n

    Two mills would allow for a $99 million bond fund, half of which will go to develop the complex into \u201cScott Park University.\u201d The other 3.8 mills will be new operational money to raise $10.3 million a year. Toledo has only the seventh highest total millage of the 10 school districts in Lucas County.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Several dozen local church pastors, community leaders, past city mayors, on Thursday, October 24 at the Tabernacle Church to urge citizens to cast a \u201cyes\u201d vote for Issue 19 on the November 5 general election ballot. \u201cIssue 19 is focused on the belief that every student is prepared to succeed,\u201d said Tabernacle Pastor Calvin Sweeney […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[250,252,17],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[260],"class_list":["post-14150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-politics","category-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14153,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14150\/revisions\/14153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14150"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.thetruthtoledo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=14150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}