Parcel Tax Renewal for San Jose Unified School District Falling Short of Approval

A bid by the San Jose Unified School District to renew its $72 parcel tax appears headed for rejection, as a small turnout of district voters failed to reach the required two-thirds majority in mail ballots counted Tuesday.

Billed by the district – the largest of city’s 19 school districts – as a proposal to renew “locally controlled parcel tax funding for student success, the parcel tax, called Measure A, drew the support of 60% of the voters in the mail-ballot-only election, according to the Santa County Registrar of Voters.

Mail-in ballots postmarked Tuesday are still being accepted and counted, until May 13…

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