A year after voters soundly rejected its bond request, Chandler Unified School District is coming back with a lower total, hoping that will convince them to authorize the money it says it needs to maintain the state’s second largest district.

CUSD voters rejected the $487.5 million bond request in 2024 by a 54%-to-46% margin. This year the district is asking for $271.5 million. At the same time, it is asking voters to approve the override, which allows a district to exceed the limits placed on it by the state by 15%.

“We are so fortunate that taxpayers have given us taxpayer dollars and approved initiatives for 35 years in our school district,” said Lana Berry, CUSD’s chief financial officer. “Our first bonds and overrides were passed in 1990, but we failed our first couple of election

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