4 districts hope to change voters' minds on school funding
EVERETT — Leaders of public school districts in Marysville, Sultan, Granite Falls and Stanwood will ask voters in April to approve critical funding measures they rejected in this month’s special election.
Those districts failed to pass multi-year property tax levies they rely on to pay for classroom staff, special education services, athletic programs, computers and facility improvements not covered by state dollars. Each was intended to replace one expiring at the end of 2022.
State law allows districts to try twice in a calendar year to pass them. April 26 is the next special election date.
Across Washington, voters rejected 17 education program and eight capital improvement levies in the Feb. 8 special election. Nine of those 25 losses occurred in districts in Snohomish County.
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