Voters in the Higley Unified School District have a choice to make this fall: allow funding for better area schools or take a tax rate decrease.
Higley is asking voters this November to approve a 15% maintenance and operations override district leaders say is critical to preserving programs, competitive teacher pay and smaller class sizes. The election is conducted all by mail.
Superintendent David Loutzenheiser, just three months into his role, said the community has seen what one wave of override reductions has done to campuses and is learning what a second wave could mean.
