26 Phoenix-area school districts asking voters to approve bonds, overrides, property sales – KTAR News 92.3 FM

26 Phoenix-area school districts asking voters to approve bonds, overrides, property sales  KTAR News 92.3 FM

Twenty-six Phoenix-area school districts are asking voters to approve bonds, overrides or the sale of district-owned property in Tuesday's election. Tuesday's election will determine if some districts, including Peoria Unified, have to cut their operating budgets. Watch: Peoria Unified School District asking for override in upcoming election | 53 seconds Manage your preferences, view your saved articles and videos, and continue listening to your in-progress podcasts from your dashboard. Twenty-six Phoenix-area school districts are asking voters to approve bonds, overrides or the sale of district-owned property in Tuesday’s election. A school bond is a long-term loan for capital expenses such as construction, while an override increases or renews an existing property tax on residents to help increase school district budgets.

Here are the Maricopa County districts looking for financial approval from residents: Tahlya Visintainer, interim superintendent of the Peoria Unified School District, said the override and sale approval would allow funding to be spent where students and staff need it most instead of on empty buildings. “We lag behind several of our neighboring districts in terms of compensation,” she said. “So, that would be a key area where we’d want to focus is really being able to, you know, bring ourselves up and, in some cases, we could [rise] above our neighboring districts so that we can be more competitive.”