The Hillsborough County Schools Superintendent is proposing a property tax increase to go on the November ballot that would support teacher and staff pay as well as student programs.
Hillsborough County Public Schools announced Thursday plans to build a new Just Elementary School and Stewart Middle School on their current sports fields.
As the Hillsborough County school district continues to grapple with staffing shortages, the superintendent hopes to find a solution in the form of a new property tax.
They have the votes. That was the big takeaway from a recent Hillsborough County Commission workshop over whether to put an extension of the Community Investment Tax to a November referendum. But what that ballot question would include is entirely unclear. Much of the discussion centered on eliminating the diverse priorities that made the tax palatable to a majority of voters when it first .