[Photo] PAUSD considers renewal of $16.5 million parcel tax Priya Tamura and Mayu Altekar-Okazaki November 18, 2025
Students weigh stakes, readiness as they approach the ballot Arjun Jindal, Reporter/Photographer November 6, 2025
[Photo] Juniors victorious in last ‘best-dressed’ competition Navya Narayanan and Julia Curtis October 17, 2025
[Photo] Juniors rule in second ‘best-dressed’ competition Navya Narayanan and William Xue October 14, 2025
[Photo] Chiu’s responsibilities to be ‘reassigned’ to other committees, resolution countered Celina Lee and Kristine Lin February 12, 2025
[Photo] Preview: School board braces for Ethnic Studies fall-out Priya Tamura and Mayu Altekar-Okazaki February 11, 2025
[Photo] Community members gather for tense board meeting Celina Lee and Kristine Lin February 11, 2025
[Photo] Preview: Football to play Menlo-Atherton in rivalry game Shreyas Shashi, Reporter October 25, 2024
[Photo] Board candidate Chiu-Wang champions representation, persistence Celina Lee and Sophie Zhang October 29, 2024
[Photo] Preview: Rolling the dice — “Casino Night” to take over Homecoming Allison Ma and Veronica Qiu October 17, 2024
![The Palo Alto Unified School District board reviews new parcel tax renewal polling data at a school board meeting on Nov. 4. School Board member Allison Kamhi said she could foresee a shortened renewal timeline --- a period less than the current 7-year cycle --- if property and enrollment trends dramatically change.
“What I was finding interesting about it [the parcel tax] was this idea of putting it back before voters, if indeed, we find ourselves in a situation with drastically increasing property taxes and drastically decreasing enrollment,” Kamhi said. “But I am not convinced that we need that, given the polling and given the clear consensus that this is the right thing to do.”](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/IMG_0030-1-e1762790094978-1200x635.jpg)
![A small crowd gathers in front of Palo Alto Unified School District's boardroom, hours before the doors open for tonight's meeting. According to community member Sara Woodham, she is coming in support of Danae Reynolds, who was impacted by new board member Rowena Chiu’s recent online activity following the previous board meeting earlier this month. “The part that is truly concerning or worrisome is the use of social media to characterize that meeting and essentially re-tweeting a website that had all these flagrantly racist posts at the time of the reposting,” Woodham said. “It essentially led to Danae [Reynolds] getting even more threats and racist commentary. I also find it ironic because what spawned from the notion that Rowena felt unsafe is that Danae literally became unsafe, and it really became dangerous for her.”](https://palyvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/364A0041-1200x800.jpg)
