RBUSD seeks $63 million bond
The Redondo Beach Unified School District’s Board of Education Tuesday night voted unanimously to place a $63 million bond measure on the November ballot which would largely take RBUSD off the electrical grid by making every school solar-powered in addition to providing other new technologies inside classrooms. The district, after five consecutive years of drastic state educational funding cuts, reluctantly decided to go back to local voters four years after passing the $145 million Measure C. That bond measure paid for the complete overhaul of the Redondo Union High School campus and upgrades to all district schools. The newly proposed bond measure is intended to propel RBUSD classrooms into the 21st century. “We need to move forward, and make sure we make the investment to start making a serious change to transform the way our students learn – to leave the industrial revolution in the past and move forward and change the way learning goes on in our school system,” said School Board member Drew Gamet. The bond, if passed, would also indirectly help the district address an ongoing $2 million shortfall in its $67 million annual budget. Though bond monies cannot be directly used for…
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