The Peoria Unified School District governing board during its next meeting Nov. 13 will discuss the implications of the recent override failure in the general election and what the next budget could look like because of it.

In the Nov. 4 election, voters chose to deny the override, which funds people and programs, by three percentage points. Peoria Unified has had an override in place since 1996.

The failure will end $33 million in annual funding from residents’ property taxes that historically has gone to assistant principals, school nurses, physical education, arts education, reading programs, instructional coaches and all day kindergarten, among others.

In a recent letter sent to families and staff, Superintendent KC Somers said the maintenance and operations override has been a crit

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