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Miami-Dade\u2019s school system would retain extra dollars for teacher pay and school security if voters approve extending a special property tax that will be on the ballot in November 2026. <\/p>\n
Pedro Portal<\/p>\n
pportal@miamiherald.com<\/p>\n
Miami-Dade voters will decide this fall whether to keep a property tax that boosts teacher pay and provides extra dollars for school security.<\/p>\n
The tax is one of three that property owners pay to fund the Miami-Dade school system, which includes charter schools. Voters have approved the extra tax twice before, in 2018 and 2022. On Tuesday, Miami-Dade commissioners unanimously granted a request by the School Board<\/a> to ask voters to retain the tax for another four years through 2031.<\/p>\n Superintendent Jose Dotres said the voter-approved tax has allowed Miami-Dade to keep teacher salaries on par with the national average, in a range between $60,000 and $70,000. If the referendum fails to get the required majority vote in November, he said the school system\u2019s budget couldn\u2019t sustain that pay once the current voter approval expires next year.<\/p>\n \u201cTeacher salaries would drop significantly,\u201d Dotres told the Miami Herald after the meeting. He also said the money pays for extra security at schools.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have a police officer in every one of our school buildings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The tax equals one \u201cmil\u201d \u2014 a legal term used in taxation that amounts to one dollar of tax for every $1,000 of a property\u2019s taxable value.<\/p>\n In Miami-Dade, the median taxable value for homes is $177,141. For that homeowner, the school tax that\u2019s up for a vote would cost about $177 a year. That\u2019s roughly 6% of the total tax bill of about $3,000 for schools, countywide services, and municipal and state services, according to Herald calculations using data from the Miami-Dade Property Appraiser\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade\u2019s school system would retain extra dollars for teacher pay and school security if voters approve extending a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-277004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277004","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=277004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}