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• Wary of anti-tax sentiments, school districts start planning early for levy elections

  Wary of anti-tax sentiments, school districts start planning early for levy elections

  All seven Whatcom County school districts will ask voters to approve maintenance and operations levies, also called basic education levies, this winter, likely in February.

  Even though the election is months away, Whatcom school boards are starting discussions about it now, brainstorming ways to educate people about why the levy revenue is needed and figuring out how much money to ask voters to approve.

  In Washington, school districts receive most of their funding from the state, with the rest coming from the federal government and local property taxes. Whatcom school districts receive 17 to 25 percent of their revenue from local property tax levies.

• Letters to the Editor

  Letters to the Editor

  Vote ‘yes’ for school district replacement levy For 48 years we have proudly voted for Peninsula School District levies and bond issues. Our vote on Feb. 14th will be no exception. We will vote to provide the children in our community with the best education possible, and that includes the best for our grandchildren at Voyager Elementary and Kopachuck Middle School. The reason passage of this Educational Programs and Operations Levy is so important is that it replaces the current levy set to expire. It provides about 22 percent of the costs of operating Peninsula School District on a day-to-day basis. The proposed levy will provide a continuation of funding for the next four years. Essential components like vital teaching staff, technology, textbook availability, athletics, arts and social studies curriculum, and critical building maintenance will be jeopardized if the levy fails. Peninsula School District rates as one of the best in the state. One way costs have been keep down is through the generosity

• Yakima school district relying on levy

  Yakima school district relying on levy

  YAKIMA -- Yakima School District officials are asking the city's voters to put more money into the district by increasing the local maintenance and operations levy.

  The proposal on the Feb. 14 ballot is to collect almost $54.2 million from 2013-16. The levy is an 8.4 percent increase over the one that voters passed in 2008.

  With more than 14,500 students, Yakima is by far the largest district in the area. And its levy is by far the largest on ballot. West Valley School District's $16.8 million two-year levy is a distant second.

• Meridian will ask for school levy on March 13

  Meridian will ask for school levy on March 13

  The Meridian school district is proposing a $14 million, two-year levy to restore nine cut school days.

• Voters must backfill local school districts’ funding gap

  Voters must backfill local school districts’ funding gap

  As the Washington Supreme Court pointed out earlier this month, the state is failing in its “paramount duty” to amply fund education. The court ordered the state Legislature to figure out how to resolve that situation.