Schools

Measure A and San Marino Schools: ASUD Supt.'s Correction

Statements made by a proponent of Measure A at a recent League of Women Voters forum on the school parcel tax proposal were incorrect.

Piedmont Unified School District Superintendent Constance Hubbard has issued a correction to statements made by proponents of Measure A, the school parcel tax, at a recent League of Women Voters of Piedmont forum, according to an article on the Piedmont Civic Association website.

Hubbard says the sale of a school property in San Marino was not related to increased requests for senior exemptions to that school district's parcel tax, the PCA reports.

A pro-Measure A speaker at the LVW forum said, "San Marino, they have a senior exemption and in the last four years have seen an 800% increase in participation in the senior exemption. As a result the school district in San Marino has had to sell a school that they previously leased and were earning millions of dollars of rents on. They had to sell the school for $6 million and now they’re burning through the money,” according to the PCA report.

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Information on both the school sale and the increase in senior exemptions was incorrect, Hubbard's statement says.


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