Levy failure prompts student walkout

Students marched with signs in their hands and fires in their hearts as they staged a walkout and rally Friday afternoon on the field behind the school. Through biting wind and light snow, they made their voices heard. They walked out at 2:05 p.m. — 25 minutes before the school day ended — to symbolize a loss of $1 million per minute, or 1% of the Coeur d'Alene School District's budget, 25% of which is supported by funds from the supplemental levy. A request for a $25 million-per-yer perpetual levy narrowly failed at the polls March 14.