Primer for LI school district elections
Photo credit: Newsday/Karen Wiles Stabile | A sign at Garden City High School advertises a school budget vote.
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Long Islanders have a chance to vote on school budgets and board candidates Tuesday amid the greatest financial challenges for districts in two decades.
Island-wide, districts are proposing a combined total of $10.8 billion in spending for the 2011-12 school year -- up 2.17 percent from this year. Tax levies, the total revenues raised by local property taxes, would rise 3.96 percent.
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