SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- Faced with a deficit compounded by inflation and uncertainty over state and federal funding cuts, the Shaker Heights school board has placed a 9.9-mill levy on the Nov. 4 ballot.

It’s the first full operating levy brought before voters in 11 years.

The levy is projected to cost homeowners an additional $348 per year ($29 a month) per $100,000 of the Cuyahoga County auditor’s appraised property value.

In 2023, voters approved a 9.95-mill tax increase , roughly two-thirds of that going toward a bond issue to modernize and reconfigure most of the schools in the district.

That measure took advantage of $42 million available through the Ohio Facilities Construction Commission (OFCC), providing a 37 percent funding match on the transformational project currently und

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