Two bonds for a total of $13 million.  Tuesday night (8/25), the Oskaloosa School Board approved issuing those bonds at their regular Board meeting.  One bond worth $3 million will go toward the new Early Childhood Education Center.  The other bond, worth $10 million, will be used for renovations at the high school and elementary school.   Oskaloosa Superintendent Paula Wright talks about improvements planned for the high school.

“We are addressing security on the south end of the school, addressing where the students have to go outside of the building to get to the CTE classes, so we’re enclosing that as a hallway and expanding the cafeteria space and creating some classroom space.  And we’re looking at adding some space to our music programs at the high school due to their overcrowded status.”

The School Board wants to build new classrooms at the elementary school that Wright says will be used for the music programs.