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L.A. Unified faces tough task in selling parcel tax
- 05-28-2010
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By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
Save a niche in local political history if the Los Angeles school system passes a parcel tax June 8. Convention holds that there's no logical way Measure E can achieve the two-thirds majority it needs. Backers maintain hope, insisting that, above all, the cause is just and the emergency dire. Measure E would raise $92.5 million annually over four years for the Los Angeles Unified School District through a tax of a flat $100 per parcel. The money would undo some cutbacks made to offset a $640-million deficit for next year and beyond. (more...)
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