ESTIMATED BOND AMOUNT: $795 million*

ESTIMATED PROPERTY TAX HIKE: 3 to 5 cents per $100 of assessed value

NEW SCHOOLS: 16, including 10 elementary, four middle and two high schools, $559.5 million

YEAR-ROUND IMPACT: 59 existing elementary schools would be converted to a multitrack year-round calendar; 14 would be converted to a "single-track" year-round calendar, as would all 24 middle and 18 high schools that aren't currently multitrack year-rounds. Conversion costs for the 59 elementary schools: $13.2 million.

ALSO IN THE PLAN: Land and design work for 12 schools opening 2011-13 -- $48.6 million; six new ninth-grade centers to help ease crowding -- $18.3 million; two regional bus centers -- $19.9 million; renovations (East Wake High; East Millbrook and Martin Middle; Lynn Road, Aversboro, Lacy, Root, Poe, Wilburn and Bugg Elementary) -- $209.8 million; child nutrition warehouse -- $6.9 million; technology infrastructure replacements -- $9.3 million; design work on future renovations -- $8.9 million

TAKEN OUT OF PLAN: Six new schools -- three elementary, two middle, one high school, $258.4 million; renovations (Wake Forest-Rolesville, Enloe, Apex, Cary, Millbrook High; West Millbrook Middle; Smith, Brooks, Conn Elementary) -- $249.7 million; new administration building and office complex on Noble Road -- $45.2 million; new computers for existing schools -- $27.9 million; two additional regional bus centers -- $20.9 million

WHAT'S GOOD: Reduces bond issue (and potential tax increase) and need for elementary student reassignment. Some parents, students prefer regular breaks on year-round calendar.

WHAT'S BAD: Would not reduce need for classroom trailers as much as district wants. Some parents and teachers prefer the longer summer vacations that are part of traditional calendar.

*Estimate based on past bond issues totaling about 80 percent of spending.