Tacoma district plans February bond election

FromThe Tacoma News-Tribune: The Tacoma (Wash.) School district will ask voters in February to approve a $140 million capital levy and an $82 million operations levy. The capital levy would pay for a new Baker Middle School to open in January 2012 and a new Hunt Middle School in January 2015. The Washington portion of the dual Washington-Hoyt Elementary School campus would be modernized, preserving its historic character, and finished in September 2016.