About $120 million in operating funds is at stake as Detroiters head to the polls today.
On the ballot: Whether to allow the city school district to collect revenue it needs to operate.
City residents have approved previous operating millages — which is what this tax is — for Detroit Public Schools, the entity that used to run schools but exists now solely to collect tax revenue to pay off old debt. A court decision earlier this year said DPS must cease collecting an operating millage, because the debt will be fully paid off in September. That meant the Detroit Public Schools Community District needed to ask voters to approve its own millage…