Video recording of the South Whidbey School District board meeting of Mar. 27, 2024.
Jo Moccia
Changes are ahead for South Whidbey School District leadership with the assistant superintendent retiring this year and the superintendent retiring next year.
SOUTH WHIDBEY RECORD: The South Whidbey School District has received an electric school bus through the Environmental Protection Agency’s Clean School Program Rebate that the district applied to in 2022.
Some changes are on the horizon for elected leaders in the city of Langley, and two bonds affecting South Whidbey homeowners appear to have passed the required 60% supermajority threshold.
South Whidbey School District Superintendent Jo Moccia wrote a Sound Off column for the South Whidbey Record in response to former School Director Jim Adsley’s column opposing the district’s November 2023 bond ballot measure.
The South Whidbey School Board has decided to move ahead with a second attempt to pass a nearly $80 million bond for facility maintenance and improvements.
Nearly two months after the failure of an $80 million bond, the South Whidbey School Board has decided to move forward with another bond request, this time for the general election ballot.
Faced with a revenue shortage, the South Whidbey School District must make significant budget cuts over the next two years that will ultimately have an impact on staff.