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For the second year in a row, Manhattan voters this week turned down a high school operations levy request, forcing the district to move to its contingency plan to fund programs for the next academic year. Superintendent Brian Ayers said Wednesday he is disappointed the levy failed, but stressed, “I don’t view a failed levy as the community not supporting schools.” Instead, he said it’s clear the district failed to effectively communicate its need for the funding, and he vow...

The Manhattan School District will hold its Annual School Election on May 4, 2021, and will include a Trustee election and a request for a General Fund operating levy for the high school district. The high school has not passed an operating levy since 2014. Last year, the district ran an elementary and a high school district operating levy. The elementary district levy passed and the high school district levy failed. These were the first levy elections since the 2016 bond election. Although the...