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� � EXHIBIT B FULL BALLOT TEXT Redwood City Elementary School District Elementary Education Improvement and Student Achievement Measure • Due to state budget cuts to education, the Redwood City Elementary School District (which educates students in Redwood City, parts of Atherton, Menlo Park, San Carlos, Woodside, and adjacent unincorporated areas) has cut about $13 million over the last five years, including laying off more than 120 teachers and other staff, increasing the number of students in many classrooms by up to 50 percent, and reducing the number of hours that school libraries ue open during the school day. • Per student funding has dropped from $5,534 per shadent in the 2007-08 school year to $4,972 per student in the 2011-12 school year. This drop in per student funding occurced at the same time that operating expenses such as energy, utilities and cost of supplies have increased. • Student success is our school district's priority, and most of the budget goes directly to academic programs and classroom instruction to deliver quality education to all of our students. • Redwood City School District is one of the lowest funded school districts in the region, which has made recent budget cuts even more harmful to our academic program. TERMS To improve local elementary and middle school education for all shadents with funds that cannot be taken by the State, to enhance reading, writing, math, and science skills; to attract and retain qualified teachers; and to suppoR school libraries; shall the Redwood City Elementary School District levy an educational parcel tax of $67 annually for five years only, exempting seniors, with independent citizen oversight, annual reports to the communiry, no money for administrators' salaries, and all money benefiting local schools? Moneys raised under this Measure shall be authorized to be used only for the following purposes in accordance with priorities established by the Board and to the extent of available funds: