even my parents who are retired teachers voted no on this.

I had to convince my wife (teacher) though. She got a major load of BS from the union about it. Just like has been mentioned before, there isn't enough responsibility, they have a shit load of reserves as is, whole state taxing is not good when the money is not distributed well. Her district really could use more money and they really do work on a pretty good budget and do well at it. Class sizes are much too high though and if they could get money for a couple more teachers at her school the kids really would benefit from it. this tax doesn't give all the money to schools. and some districts don't need the money.