Election 2010: Voters say yes to districts | EdNewsColorado

Election 2010: Voters say yes to districts | EdNewsColorado

Election 2010: Voters say yes to districts

by Nancy Mitchell

Few Colorado superintendents could have been happier this week than Mapleton’s Charlotte Ciancio, who learned Tuesday night that sometimes three strikes don’t mean you’re out.

This election marked the Mapleton school district’s fourth consecutive attempt to win voter approval of a bond issue to build and repair schools. Each year, the yes-no vote tally got a little better – from a 44%-56% loss in 2007 to this week’s 58%-42% win.

“If you look at where we started, we were building every year,” Ciancio said Thursday. “It’s taken us four years to