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Parcel tax initiative needs signatures
- 01-25-2010
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Blog by John Fensterwald/Educated Guess
Twenty-two of state Sen. Joe Simitian’s colleagues in the Senate are co-sponsoring a proposed constitutional amendment that would allow lower the threshold for passing a local school parcel tax from two-thirds to 55 percent.That’s an impressive number, except that Simitian, a Democrat from Palo Atlo, needs 27 votes – two-thirds of Senate – to move SCA 6 forward. And so far, as in years past, he can’t find one Republican willing to let voters decide for themselves. Not willing to wait any longer, a new Bay Area-based group, Californians for Improved School Funding, has started circulating an initiative that would achieve the same thing. The organizers, led by Don Gibson, a trustee of the Sequoia Union High School District, are calling it Local Control of Local Classrooms Funding Act. (more...)
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