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LAUSD board to vote on parcel tax
- 02-16-2010
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By Connie Llanos/Los Angeles Daily News
Facing a massive budget deficit, the Los Angeles Unified School District board will decide Tuesday whether to ask voters in June for a $100 per-parcel tax increase for the next four years to help keep local schools afloat. The limited parcel tax would generate about $92.5 million per year, according to a board report. The money would go toward limiting class size increases, reducing teacher layoffs, and maintaining vocational and job training programs, according to the abbreviated text of the measure. The tax would also exempt low-income seniors and would not fund any central administrators' salaries. "The bottom line is the district is in desperate straits," said Judith Perez, president of Associated Administrators Los Angeles, who supports the tax. (more...)
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