Invest in Our Children, Our Communities, Our Future
Schools and Communities First is supported by a broad coalition of leaders and organizations to:
- Reclaim $12 billion every year for our schools and local communities.
- Close commercial property tax loopholes that corporations and wealthy investors use to avoid paying their fair share of property taxes.
- Protect all homeowners and renters by maintaining tax protections for ALL residential property
- Ensure strict accountability so that money goes directly to our schools and communities.
California is a state of many contradiction. California is the 5th largest economy in the world, has 26% of US Billionaires, and California CEOS make 361 times more than their workers. California has the highest rate of poverty, is 39th in per pupil spending, and spends more on our prisons than on education.
California ranks 50th in K-12 spending per students.
Passed by voters in 1978, Prop. 13 capped state taxes for all types of property at 1% of the purchase price, with annual increases of no more than 2%. Critics have long complained that California is losing out on billions of dollars in revenue each year from valuable business properties that have never changed hands and thus never had their taxes reassessed.
Look at some of the groups who supports schools and communities first:
EDUCATION
California State Parent Teach Association (PTA)
Chula Vista Educators
El Monte Union Educators Association
Faculty Association of California Community Colleges (FACCC)
Partnership for LA Schools
LABOR
AFSCME
Acalanes Education Association
American Federation of Teachers
Anaheim Secondary Teachers Association CTA/NEA
California Teachers Association
East Side Teachers Association
Fremont Unified District Teachers Association
Fresno Teachers Association
Hayward Teachers Association
Oakland Education Association
Richmond Teachers Association
San Jacinto Teachers Association
Santa Ana Educators Association
United Teachers of San Francisco
United Teachers of Los Angeles
United Teachers of Richmond
United Teachers of Pasadena
SOCIAL JUSTICE
ACLU of Southern California
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment
California Immigrant Youth Justice Alliance
California Partnership for Working Families
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles
Los Angeles Community Action Network
Promesa Boyle Heights
SIREN Action
SCHOOL DISTRICTS
Alameda County Board of Education
Albany Unified School District
Anaheim Elementary School District
Berkeley Unified School District
Escondido Union School District
Glendale Unified School District
Hayward Unified School District of Alameda County Board of Education
Jefferson Union High School District
Los Angeles Unified School District
Marin County Board of Education
Oakland Unified School District
Ocean View School District
Oceanside Unified School District
Palmdale School District Board of Education
Pasadena Unified School District
Sacramento City Unified School District
San Bruno Park School District
San Francisco Unified School District
San Jose Unified School District
San Lorenzo Unified School District
San Marcos Unified School District
Santa Ana Unified School Distric