School SPLOST Election: How Will You Vote?

Midtown and other city voters will decide Nov. 8 whether to renew the 1-cent sales tax for city schools.

If voters approve, a renewed penny sales tax would raise $520 million over its five-year lifespan from 2013, according to Atlanta Public Schools.

The money collected would go toward building new schools, refurbishing existing buildings and other purposes such as upgrading school buses and service fleet vehicles.

If the tax is not renewed, the district will have to go into its general fund to pay for such projects.

Some of the money raised by the new SPLOST could be used to construct a new middle school in Midtown. But details about that project still are undecided, per APS spokesman Keith Bromery:

A new middle school for that area has not been decided and will be contingent upon need. With the planned completion of the new high school for the and the planned use of the existing North Atlanta High School as the middle school for the area, another middle school may not be needed. The same is true for a new elementary school for the area, as the existing Sutton Middle School may be converted to an elementary school. A new middle school is only a contingency, if needed. And no site has been selected for such a facility.

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