Most state school construction bonds, parcel taxes pass

Besides voting for a new state superintendent of public instruction, voters in dozens of school districts in California on Nov. 6 decided whether to borrow money for school construction projects and tax themselves.

With all precincts reporting but not all ballots counted, voters passed school construction bond measures in 89 of 112 K-12 and community college districts. And they passed parcel taxes in eight of the 13 school districts that had placed them on the ballot to create new sources of revenue or to extend existing parcel taxes.