What is Prop 2? The California measure looking to borrow money to repair schools, colleges

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- As voters formed their ballots, they volition determine whether the authorities should get $10 cardinal to physique and repair nationalist schools and assemblage colleges.

"Every pupil successful the authorities deserves to beryllium successful a schoolroom that's worthy of being educated in," Yuri Calderon said. He is the Executive Director of the Small School Districts Association.

Proposition 2 would straight interaction the campuses Calderon represents -- those with little than 2,500 students.

"They are the immense bulk of schoolhouse districts successful the authorities of California," Calderon said. "They are - implicit 65% are small."

Calderon says those schools are often overlooked and underrepresented successful authorities backing and grants due to the fact that municipality schools are amended equipped to use for the money.

"That's wherefore these provisions are successful this enslaved measurement to guarantee astatine slightest a information of those funds extremity up successful our agrarian and tiny communities," Calderon said.

The authorities would administer Proposition 2 wealth done matching grants, requiring districts to lend from section funds.

The prop would not automatically rise taxes, but the authorities volition request to find astir $500 cardinal a twelvemonth to repay the loan.

"It's conscionable that these schoolhouse boards are not surviving wrong their means," Francisco Alanis of the Libertarian Party said.

He points retired the enslaved measurement volition outgo taxpayers overmuch much than the projected $10 billion. Interest volition outgo $8 cardinal implicit 35 years.

"To repay this bond, it's going to summation spot taxes, and I'm not conscionable talking astir homeowners," Alanis said. Renters, arsenic well."

Proposition 2 goes earlier voters arsenic Calderon says immoderate schoolhouse facilities are successful mediocre shape.

"When you spot places that don't person cleanable drinking water, that they don't person a sewer strategy that's afloat operational, that their bathrooms look similar worse than a autobus presumption bath ... These are schools present successful California," Calderon said.

Alanis says Proposition 2 is an costly inquire that is unnecessary successful the archetypal place.

"School districts person an yearly budget. So, if these repairs were truly needed, these repairs should beryllium budgeted successful their yearly budget," Alanis said.

Proposition 2 comes 4 years aft voters rejected a $15 cardinal enslaved connection for schools successful 2020. The past clip voters approved borrowing wealth for schools was successful 2016.

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