Gwinnett County voters to decide whether to extend one-cent education sales tax for five years.
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Peachtree Corners, Berkeley Lake and other Gwinnett County voters will decide Tuesday whether to extend a one-cent tax for five years to fund future educational improvements in Gwinnett County Public Schools. ESPLOST IV would address classroom and technology needs through 2017. ESPLOST III, the current SPLOST for schools, will expire June 30, 2012. Since 1997 GCPS has benefitted from a special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) for education that has provided students with thousands of needed classrooms in 46 new schools and dozens of school additions, as well as technology improvements essential to teaching and learning, according to information provided by the school system. The Gwinnett County Board of Education voted to place the …
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Norcross High School
5300 Spalding Dr, Norcross, GA
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Pinckneyville Middle School
5440 W Jones Bridge Rd, Norcross, GA
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Peachtree Elementary School
5995 Crooked Creek Rd, Norcross, GA
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Simpson Elementary School
4525 E Jones Bridge Rd, Norcross, GA
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Berkeley Lake Elementary School
4300 S Berkeley Lake Rd NW, Berkeley Lake, GA
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Thanks to voter approval of ESPLOST I, II and III, Gwinnett school system was able "to manage the challenges of its dramatic growth in student enrollment, rather than being managed by it."
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Monday, November 7, 2011
In 1996 the Georgia General Assembly passed legislation that was one of the most beneficial bills for public education ever to come out of the Gold Dome. Lawmakers approved calling for an amendment to the state’s Constitution that would allow school districts to seek approval to fund capital projects with sales taxes. The amendment passed statewide in November of 1996, and in March of 1997, Gwinnett County Public Schools took the special purpose local option sales tax, or SPLOST, to its citizens. It was approved by almost 72 percent! Since 1997, the Gwinnett education SPLOST has provided our students with thousands of classrooms and major technology improvements. Gwinnett voters extended the one-penny SPLOST in 2001 and 2006 by wide …
