Fargo
Measures 1 and 2 are not only about funding for education, they are about how the money is spent and the control of it.
If the Fargo School District is so strapped for funds that it cannot increase teachers' wages, why did Fargo School Board members vote themselves a substantial increase in their pay? How can the Fargo school administration elect to build a new school if they can only "keep the doors open and the lights on," as stated by Dakota Draper of the North Dakota Education Association?
It is time that the taxpayers have a say in how this money is spent.
