The Queen Creek Unified School District is asking to sell $98 Million dollars in bonds in addition to a 7 year, 15% Budget Override of $14 Million.

- If you aren't already registered to vote, the last day to register in order to be eligible to vote in this election is Tuesday, October 10th, 2023.

• Check your voter registration status at ezaz.org/vote

- Ballots will be mailed on October 11, 2023. The last day to request early ballot October 27 

- VOTED BALLOTS MUST BE RECEIVED NO LATER THAN 7 p.m., November 7th. MAIL ballots by October 31st.

All registered voters that reside in the Queen Creek Unified School District will receive a ballot by mail with voting instructions in the envelope.

- Has at least 1 teacher who has signed a pledge to teach Critical Race Theory (CRT) and all other social justice-oriented curriculum to children, regardless of the law or the wishes of parents. - SOURCE 

- Critical Race Theory teaches that systemic racism is part of American society - from education and housing to employment and healthcare. - SOURCE 

- Dedicated to implementing and teaching Social Emotional Learning - SOURCE 

- CASEL, a leading organization for implementing SEL in schools, displays on their website a poster to illustrate what Social Emotional Learning is. “Social and emotional learning (SEL) is a process through which children and adults develop the fundamental skills for life effectiveness. We need SEL skills for ourselves, our relationships, and our work. In OUSD, we believe that strengthening these skills enhances our ability to effectively and ethically connect across race, class, culture, language, gender identity, sexual orientation, learning needs, and age.” - SOURCE 

- SEL uses emotional responses to generate student attention to drive learning. - SOURCE

- 92.83% Graduation Rate 

- 54% of students are proficient or highly proficient at English Language Arts 

- 52% of students are proficient or highly proficient at Math

Queen Creek Unified pays an average annual salary of $55,151 to teachers. 

The average annual salary in Queen Creek is $62,000.

Voters will be asked to say yes or no on two measures: 

- The sale of $98 million in new bonds 

- A 15% Budget Override

Not able to find the information for what the estimated tax is. 

- Shows up on your tax bill as secondary property tax. 

- Property taxes combined add up to thousands of dollars! 

- To view your current property tax liability, visit https://treasurer.maricopa.gov/Parcel/ParcelSearch.aspx

Queen Creek Unified spends $17,680 per student per year.

- Without passage of the override, the district will have to reduce the operational budget. 

- Once any outstanding Bonds and Overrides are repaid, you won't have to continue paying Secondary property taxes related to the bond. 

Comparing to the 2018-2019 School Year Performance to the 2021-2022 School Year Performance 

- Drop in Graduation Rate of 1.35% 

- Nearly 19% Increase to the Drop Out Rate from 1.4% to 1.66% 

- 10% Drop in Math Proficiency 

- 2% Drop in English Proficiency 

- Added 4,795 Students to Enrollment: from 7,736 to 12,531 

- Reported Instances of Violence Increased from 19 to 52 [Nearly 3 Instances per every two school weeks] 

- Total Students with Chronic Absenteeism Increased from 905 to 3,122 [Nearly 25% of Enrolled Students] 

- Total Students Enrolled in at least one Advanced Placement Course Increased from 168 to 229 

- Total Students Reported as Harassed or Bullied Increased from 0 to 3

- Once any outstanding Bonds and Overrides are repaid, you won't have to continue paying Secondary property taxes related to the bond. 

- If the measure passes, the current Secondary tax rates will remain the same; however; 

- If the measure passes, the total amount of taxes paid will likely go higher if there is continued inflation related to property values.

- Queen Creek Unified is legally allowed to call the override a continuation even though we will vote to approve it as if it is new. 

- The $98 million in bonds is NOT a continuation and is a separate item on the property tax statement. 

- Both items will be separate items on the ballot.

Bond:

- Security Upgrades 

- Expansions 

- Renovations 

- New Buses 

- Other Improvements Override 

- Fund Teacher Salaries 

- Reduce Class Size 

- Acedemic Offerings

- If the override and bond measures are defeated, your landlord’s taxes will go down and could mitigate future rent increases. 

- Irrespective of being a property owner, we all want to see the kids receive a quality education. 

- To view your current property tax liability, visit https://treasurer.maricopa.gov/Parcel/ParcelSearch.aspx