Local Voters Decide Tax, Governance Questions
Voters in two Ohio cities sent very different messages to their school districts on Election Day.
In Cincinnati, 59 percent of the voters on Nov. 2 backed a renewal of a five-year property-tax levy. The levy generates $65.2 million in operating money annually for the school district, or about 15 percent of its budget.
But in Cleveland, voters soundly defeated a property-tax increase that would have generated $68 million in new money for the schools. The money would have helped restore some of the teaching jobs and programs cut last June, when the school board voted to reduce the budget by $100 million, to $600...
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