School Board President Wants to Withdraw Parcel Tax Plans
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Posted: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:32 pm | Updated: 12:45 pm, Mon Jul 26, 2010.
School board President Richard Barrera will ask the rest of the San Diego Unified board tomorrow to withdraw plans for a parcel tax to fund local schools, less than two weeks after the board voted to put it on the November ballot.
Barrera said he decided to reverse course on the school tax, which he'd championed, after he and Superintendent Bill Kowba had a series of meetings with Mayor Jerry Sanders and two City Council members over the weekend.
Barrera said he became convinced that it would be extremely difficult for the parcel tax to pass this November with a city sales tax increase also on the ballot. The school tax would need two-
