JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Duval County School Board is set to vote Tuesday night on whether to ask voters to renew a 1-mill property tax that the district says helps fund teacher salary supplements and other school programs, including arts, athletics and safety-related needs.<\/p>\n
If the board approves the resolution, it will go next to the Jacksonville City Council. <\/p>\n
If the City Council signs off, the question would appear on the November ballot.<\/p>\n
MORE: \u2018Deeply troubling incident\u2019: DCPS police investigating after unauthorized person boards school bus<\/a> | \u2018It really starts at home\u2019: DCPS police chief addresses parents\u2019 concerns after middle school student stabbed on bus<\/a><\/p>\n The 1-mill tax was first approved by voters in 2022. DCPS says renewing it would generate about $121 million a year.<\/p>\n According to the district, the millage has funded annual salary supplements for teachers ranging from $7,730 to $9,370, which DCPS says equals roughly $62 million each year dedicated directly to teachers.<\/p>\n A Duval County parent, Jamie Travis-Leonard, told News4JAX she supports keeping the tax in place, pointing to the importance of having well-paid teachers and safe schools.<\/p>\n \u201cThey deserve to be safe and secure while teaching and continuing to grow the future,\u201d Travis-Leonard said. \u201cIf we don\u2019t have competent, well-paid teachers, we won\u2019t have those jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n The district estimates the current millage provides about $12 million annually for arts and athletics combined, including:<\/p>\n Arts program investments, according to DCPS:<\/p>\n 10-stage floors and seating renovations scheduled<\/p>\n 10 high school band uniforms<\/p>\n 32 lighting and sound upgrades<\/p>\n 2 recording studios<\/p>\n 233 teachers receiving direct classroom support<\/p>\n Athletics program investments, according to DCPS:<\/p>\n 12 playgrounds<\/p>\n 11 bleachers<\/p>\n 8 tracks<\/p>\n 6 turf fields<\/p>\n 6 scoreboards<\/p>\n 6 female facility upgrades<\/p>\n 5 tennis courts<\/p>\n In addition to the millage discussion, the school board is expected to vote on items connected to school consolidations, including whether some unused campuses should be declared surplus.<\/p>\n The board will consider declaring George Washington Carver Elementary and Hidden Oaks Elementary as surplus properties that are \u201cunsuitable and unnecessary for educational purposes,\u201d according to the agenda.<\/p>\n Board members are also expected to vote on purchase and sale agreements for:<\/p>\n Annie R. Morgan Elementary (about $1.25 million, according to agenda documents)<\/p>\n Kings Trail Elementary (about $3.75 million)<\/p>\n District documents project that those two sales would reduce vacant seats by about 1,000.<\/p>\n The school board meeting is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m. News4JAX will monitor the meeting and provide updates.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 by WJXT News4JAX – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 The Duval County School Board is set to vote Tuesday night on whether to ask…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1040,48092,113,116,118,117,8191],"class_list":{"0":"post-177211","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-dcps","9":"tag-duval-county-schools","10":"tag-education","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-jacksonville-headlines","13":"tag-jacksonville-news","14":"tag-property-tax"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}