Eastside / Live Oak / Pleasure Point

Santa Cruz schools don’t have to be dependent on federal funding, writes Kyle Kelley, the vice president of the Santa Cruz City Schools district board. We can take a simple action to get more money to our schools: build more housing. Here, he explains how local schools can benefit from increased property tax revenue: “When local property taxes bring in more money than what the state provides to schools directly, the schools get to keep the additional funds. That extra money – known as ‘basic aid’ – goes directly to our classrooms.”