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New school tax faces higher hurdle, new foes
- 07-08-2010
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Blog by Emily Alpert/Voice of San Diego
Faced with another year of budget cuts, San Diego Unified may ask voters to shoulder a new temporary tax to help keep classes small. If it does, the school district will face its toughest challenge at the ballot box in more than a decade. While the school district handily passed a construction and renovation bond in 2008 to repair schools and install new technology, a parcel tax that can be used for teachers and other day-to-day costs has to pass a steeper bar, getting two-thirds of voters instead of the 55 percent needed for a bond. (more...)
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