From the Los Angeles Times:
The Los Angeles Board of Education has voted unanimously to place a parcel tax on the June 4 ballot in hopes of capitalizing on a recent teachers’ strike that attracted broad support for local schools.
If approved, the tax is projected to raise about $500 million a year, enough to close all or most of the gap between what the district is spending and the revenue it receives from state and federal sources.
By the way, this is a good opportunity for Eli Broad, Reed Hastings, and Richard Riordan, among others, to show how much they care about the kids. Support higher taxes.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Public support for public education will never die. The billionaires had their propaganda-filled fifteen minutes, and now it’s time for them to pay taxes.
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There are two things that are certain in life: death and taxes.
For most of us, that is.
If you are a billionaire, it’s only one thing: death.
And with advances in medicine and technology, even the latter may not be a certainty for billionaires in the not too distant future.
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“Death and taxes”
Tax and tomb
Befall the most
Except for some
Who billions boast
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Don’t do it! The money won’t go to where it’s needed.
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I tend to agree. How does Beutner plan to use the money? Unless he reduces the need for duplicate services by promoting charters etc. I have no reason to be taxed for whatever! I vote, no. I am not supporting so-called choice that is only choice for the institution. I am not supporting ill-informed curriculum. I am not supporting invalid testing.
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scariest part of the money game: get more money but watch it be focused on just what kids DON’T need
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Los Angeles would not be struggling to pay for schools if there were no Prop 13 and charter drain. If billionaires feel so strongly that there should be more educational options for students, then they should pay for them, not taxpayers. California has also refused to regulate and provide oversight for charters resulting in lots of waste and fraud in charter schools while the public schools lose money on a scheme that transfers money out of their schools. Why should public school students suffer because of the city’s poor judgment?
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California school parcel taxes require a 2/3 vote in favor to pass. In 2010 L.A. Unified put up a similar parcel tax and it received only 52.9%.
Not many school districts can get 2/3 to pass school parcel taxes in California. Usually they are more affluent districts that pass them. LA Unified would likely not succeed, based on past patterns.
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California school parcel taxes require a 2/3 vote in favor to pass. In 2010 L.A. Unified put up a similar parcel tax and it received only 52.9%.
Not many school districts can get 2/3 to pass school parcel taxes in California. Usually they are more affluent districts that pass them. LA Unified would likely not succeed, based on past patterns.
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California ranks 44th in the nation, in the quality of their schools, for PreK-12. see
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings/education/prek-12
I find it hard to believe that the citizens of California will support higher taxes for public schools.
Even Californians do not want to throw good money after bad.
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Charles,
California spends below the national average on its public schools. If you read this blog, you would know this. California’s spending is the same as South Carolina, despite the fact that California is a much richer state than South Carolina
California has more charter schools than any other state.
Low funding and lots of school choice is a formula for disaster.
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