A major push to increase local funding for schools came to a climax Tuesday as Los Angeles school district voters cast ballots on whether to raise their property taxes.
Voters cast their ballots on Measure EE in a small gym set up as a polling place at the Silver Lake Recreation Center.
Opponents say the district must demonstrate better use of the money it has and that the tax increase would hurt families and businesses. The parcel tax bid was an aggressive change of direction for district leaders. They had narrowly rejected this very strategy less than a year earlier as unlikely to succeed until L.A. Unified demonstrated financial and academic progress. They also spoke of choosing an election date likely to have a higher and more liberal turnout, to give a tax measure a better chance of succeeding. And they wanted plenty of time to run a campaign.
In an interview last week, he called the election a “once in a generation opportunity” to secure badly needed funding. Garcetti commented after casting his own vote at a Koreatown polling place. He was hopeful, he said, because local voters had surpassed the two-thirds mark on recent funding measures affecting parks, transportation and homeless services.
The slim ballot likely depressed turnout, especially ifollowing a May school board election. Low-turnout elections generally bring out a disproportionately older, more conservative, less tax-friendly electorate.
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