Now is a good time to raise, once again, the question of why we are being asked to pay $548 million for school facilities improvements that does almost nothing to address the very desperate need for seismic improvements in Portland Public Schools?Maybe that's in the next $548 million phase.
Stop Measure 26-121. Stop the biggest bond issue in Oregon state history. Portland Public Schools wants to raise property taxes by almost 15 percent. The PPS modernization bond will make Portland's property taxes the highest in the state. PPS has a history of financial mismanagement and wasting taxpayer money. None of the bond money will be used to shrink class sizes, acquire new learning materials, or preserve educational programs.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
PPS says its all about school safety ... Just don't mention the earthquake, because there's almost no money for seismic upgrades in this bond!
From the Oregon Economics blog:
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Xtramator?feature=mhsn This animated video clip was produced to educate and inform the public about contemporary issues that affect our daily lives. “How Will Kathy Vote” on 26-121 and 26-122 opens the Overton Window. It does this by broadening the conversation to include the hidden budgeting ploy, that the Oregon bureaucrats repeatedly use, to extort more money from the well meaning, misinformed, public.
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