Passage of the $10 billion school bond on the Nov. 2 statewide ballot has the potential to be a watershed event for Manteca Unified.

It would likely fund $96.1 million in state funding MUSD qualifies for in modernization projects either finished, in the process of construction, or in the queue to be built.

That would basically stretch the $260 million school modernization bond passed by MUSD voters in November 2020 by 40 percent.

The money, which is the state match for local bond funding, would allow additional modernization work at Manteca High and East Union, the district’s two oldest high school campuses.

It also would help fund upwards of 75 percent for the $20 million or so needed to build early education centers for kindergarten and transitional kindergarten at the Tinin Road school site in south Manteca and the Ethel Allen school site in Lathrop.

Manteca also is advancing six new school construction projects that they have bonding capacity through community facilities districts to fund perhaps several of them as local match with state funds.

  Those projects identified by the board at the August board meeting  that could end up being built with CFD bonding wedded with Proposition 2 include:

*The building of a new elementary school in southwest Manteca on the site known as Tara Park.

*Expansion of Sierra High classrooms into the storm basin area along Winters Drive.

*Adding to the early education center campus (transitional kindergarten and kindergarten) on Tinnin Road in South Manteca to turn the site into a full elementary school, a high school, or both.

*Adding classrooms to Lincoln School.

*Adding classrooms to Sequoia School.

*Adding classrooms to Nile Garden School on 8 acres the district recently purchased that extends the campus to Union Road.

*Adding to the early education center campus (transitional kindergarten and kindergarten) on the Ethel Allen school site in Lathrop Road to turn the site into a full elementary school.