Almost 60 Northeast Ohio school districts have tax levies on the ballot this November, including several that saw failures during the May election.

That includes Parma City School District, Elyria City School District and Streetsboro City Schools. Meanwhile, almost 20 districts have certain kinds of levies on the ballot that will be banned from use after this election by the state legislature in a bid to provide property tax relief.

Levies are expressed in terms of mills. In dollars and cents, a mill translates to a tenth of a penny. For the homeowner, a levy is applied to 35% of a property's assessed value. That value is then multiplied by the number of mills in the levy. So for a 1-mill levy, the owner of a home valued at $100,000 would be $35 a year.

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