sms wrote, on Thu, 07 Aug 2014 17:56:42 -0700:

With good reason because houses in areas with good schools increase in
value and are fairly immune to housing bubbles. A 1960's era, 1500-2000
square foot, tract home, on a 6000 square foot lot, in a neighborhood
with good schools, is around $1.5 million. Property taxes would be about
$20K per year.

I don't think a single school parcel tax measure has ever failed in
Cupertino, Campbell, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Willow Glen, Los Altos,
Mountainview, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, Woodside, etc., do you?

They rebuild or renovate the schools about once every five years, or so,
it seems, so, I'm sure, as you noted, the bathrooms must be fantasatic!

Yet, after all that, they can't "afford" school buses.
Makes no sense at all, to me.

Does it make sense to you?
Did California *ever* have yellow school buses?