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Proposal would ease school parcel tax votes
- 03-09-2010
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By Cheri Carlson/Ventura County Star
A Bay Area group called Californians for Improved School Funding wants to help school districts throughout the state raise money through local parcel taxes. The group has proposed a ballot initiative that would allow school parcel taxes to pass with 55 percent voter approval, with some restrictions. They now require a two-thirds approval to pass. “This is not the end-all to fix the financial crisis that schools are facing,” said Connell Lindh, executive director of the group and president of Connell Lindh Campaigns, also in the Bay Area. The initiative, however, would provide a way for communities to help public schools on the local level, he said. (more...)
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