BARTOW, Fla. — Polk County Public Schools is joining the list of districts in the Tampa Bay area requesting a tax referendum.
The district’s board unanimously approved tentative ballot language at their meeting last Tuesday that would levy an additional $1 million in ad valorem property taxes for four years, allocating 80% of that money to increase teachers’ salaries.
The president of the Polk Education Association says this is a long time coming, and she thinks the tipping point for the school board was seeing Hillsborough County voters approve that school referendum last year…