It might be easy to feel like it’s impossible for the BG City Schools levy to pass this year after it failed in 2024. However, the statistics show that it failed by a very small amount.
Figures made by Silas Kieffer-Airhart
If the levy passes it will be because we will get more voter participation than we did the last time this issue was voted on in the fall of 2024. Last time we voted on this issue only an average of 65.5 percent of registered voters in BG voted (calculated from BOE statistics). In order to succeed we need to make sure to do things like encouraging people to vote. In order to do this we need to do things like advertising in many local business windows, getting ads in the BG independent News, and other ways of raising awareness. If the levy does not pass, activities like sports and programs like PACE will be cut from the curriculum. Many teachers will be fired and students will be worse off. If we do enough to encourage voting, the levy might be able to pass by a few hundred votes.
Silas Kieffer-Airhart
5th Grade student in BGCS at Crim Elementary, PACE student
