Construction zone classrooms: Mukilteo students pay the price after school bond fails

A trench dug in a hallway, yellow drinking water and a leaky roof plague Explorer Middle School after voters rejected a $400 million bond measure.

MUKILTEO, Wash. — Angela Gottula walks her daughter into Explorer Middle School each day into a piece of living history — and not the kind schools like to showcase.

“This building is from when the Vietnam War was happening,” she said.

The proof is hard to miss: an actual trench dug into the middle of a hallway to repair burst pipes. It is the latest in a string of problems at the 56-year-old school, which also has a leaky

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