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Tonight was election night, and Measure A was on the ballot. San Carlans spoke unambiguously — Measure A passed with 81% of the vote, an almost unheard of margin! As I blogged a few days ago, our budget situation is still severe. However, with Measure A passing, at least we will retain our local [...] An e-mail from the Superintendent today summarizes well our current predicament: To the San Carlos School District community, As many of you know, public education in California is in an unprecedented financial predicament. The State has cut our budget approximately 20% over the last three years and there are more cuts ahead. California, in inflation-adjusted terms, now [...] Today I sent the following e-mail to folks on my mailing list: Dear Friends and Supporters, I’ve tried to keep the e-mail communication to a minimum, rather trying to give updates to folks on my blog (www.rosenblatt.org/blog) and Facebook page. We have actually accomplished quite a bit this year in the San Carlos School District, but [...] I have written many times about the structural problems in California government, particularly the broken educational finance system. The problems are so fundamental that it’s hard to imagine that we’ll ever solve them, particularly in the charged political climate which seems to be the current norm. Although there was some hope last year [...] You may heard yesterday that the budget talks between Governor Brown and the GOP broke down and therefore there will be no measure on the June ballot to allow the citizens to vote on the potential extension of some state taxes. Although I won’t go into an analysis of why this happened and/or try [...] Once again, we face another difficult budget season in the San Carlos School District. We also have two big unknowns that will materially affect our revenue stream: Measure A, the renewal of the expiring Measure D parcel tax, which will be voted on in the May 3 all-mail election Last Saturday night was the annual Spring Fling hosted by the San Carlos Educational Foundation. I’ve written a fair bit about the amazing work done by SCEF and its crucial role in funding our public schools in this city. Spring Fling is the annual dinner/auction fundraiser which last year raised over $420,000 for [...] The San Mateo County Elections Office just officially assigned letters for the ballot measures on the May 3rd ballot. The San Carlos School District parcel tax measure will be known as Measure A. On the county elections website, you can see the full text of Measure A and the other issues and races [...] Today I wrote the following article which appeared on San Carlos Patch: Last night the School Board unanimously approved placing a measure before voters in May that would effectively renew the Measure D parcel tax, which was originally passed by voters in June 2003 with 70% of the vote (2/3 is [...] Last night the School Board reviewed the summany results of the Parcel Tax Feasibility Survey fielded last month. 400 San Carlos voters were polled and asked about their general impressions of the District as well their appetite for renewing the Measure D parcel tax originally approved by voters in 2003. The survey results [...] |
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