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Article: School districts seek money to grow on; Elk River, Rosemount and Lakeville are among 16 metro-area school districts pleading for voters' financial help as booming populations crowd schools and wear out structures.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- November 2, 2000
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Propped against the wall in Elk River Superintendent David Flannery's office is his favorite visual aid: a poster-sized map of the 180-square-mile school district sprinkled with yellow, green and red tags.
The red tags are schools. There are a few of those. Much more numerous are the yellow and green tags, stuck where housing developments in varying stages of completion are sprouting. There are 29 of them, comprising thousands of new homes, apartments and townhouses.
"This is part of the pressure we face," said Flannery, who takes his poster along when he's out trying to drum up support for the district's $108 million bond request, which goes before ...