Voters rejected bond proposal in Mineola (N.Y.) district

From The Mineola Patch: The Mineola (N.Y.) School District has failed to win approval of a $4.4 million bond proposal. Because of the defeat, the district will move the eighth grade into the high school and the fifth grade into the middle school. The bond money would have paid for an addition of Jackson Avenue School to house grades three, four and five.

OCTOBER 2010....from Mineola Patch: Voters in the Mineola (N.Y.) Union Free School District have rejected a $6.7 million bond plan that would paid for a school addition that would enable the district to close three elementary schools. The bond proposal would have provided funds for an addition at Jackson Avenue school. That would have enabled the district to close Meadow Drive in Albertson, Hampton Street in Mineola, and Cross Street in Williston Park.