APS SPLOST results: Atlanta penny sales tax passes

Atlanta Public Schools expects to collect about $464 million from the tax. This isn't exactly a new tax: Atlanta has had a school sales tax for years to help fund capital projects. This basically continues that tax.

Atlanta's penny sales tax spending plan includes:

• $100 million to relieve crowding in Grady High School and the schools feeding into it;
• $49.9 million for renovations and construction at the low-performing schools APS has targeted for intensive improvement efforts;
• $8.1 million to ensure all high schools have field houses and artificial turf fields;
• $47 million for technology purchases, including $10 million for phase one of a project to give middle and high school students their own digital devices; and
• $5 million to upgrade security cameras and fire alarms.