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Wash U Owes U: Payments in Lieu of Taxes

Thursday, November 14, 7 p.m.
In-person program at 
The Center of Clayton
50 Gay Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63105
Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; program begins at 7 p.m.
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Despite having an endowment of $14 billion (yes, that’s billion – with a “B”) Washington University pays nearly ZERO property taxes. Meanwhile public schools just blocks away lack basic resources to meet families’ needs; needs which will only grow as climate change causes flooding, wildfires, rising food prices, and other crises.

The Green New Deal for Public Schools campaign is calling on Chancellor Andrew Martin and Washington University to commit $15M/year – roughly 1/1,000th of that endowment – to support The School District of University City, St. Louis Public Schools, and district families with:

• Affordable, safe, green social housing for unhoused SLPS students, 
• Expanded public pre-K and childcare for University City families,
• More green spaces for school communities
• Removal of environmental hazards (lead, asbestos, etc). 

A panel of speakers involved in this effort will share the ways this initiative would benefit our entire region and what each of us can do to help make this vision a reality for under-resourced families and neighborhoods.