Ken Graham: FROM THE PUBLISHER

A little over a year ago, voters in the Dayton School District soundly defeated a $25 million bond levy measure that would have funded a major renovation to Dayton’s school facilities. The message was clear: taxpayers weren’t willing to pay for a project that they deemed much more luxurious than what the schools needed to do their job of educating our kids.

This month the Dayton schools are again asking voters to approve a levy measure, but on a much smaller scale. The district is asking for $800,000 in a two-year capital levy that will pay for some basic maintenance and improvements to the sc...