ARANSAS PASS, TX — For the first time, Aransas Pass Independent School District is asking taxpayers to participate in an upcoming voter approval tax rate election that officials said could mean more opportunities for students and teachers without increasing the overall tax burden.

The district is proposing a 3-cent increase to the maintenance and operations tax rate, which Superintendent Wayne Bennett said would generate $360,000 for campus budgets.

"This gives you day to day budgetary funds. We can look at salaries, we can look at some of our programs, we might look at some upgrades on facilities, we're able to buy supplies," Bennett said.

However, Bennett emphasized that voters need to understand the overall district tax rate is a combination of two components: maintenance and opera

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