In 2016, Marin County came tantalizingly close to approving a parcel tax that would have raised millions of dollars to support early childhood education. A decade later, with federal budget cuts looming, advocates are trying again.
The threshold for approval is lower this time, thanks to a series of court rulings that allow citizen-initiated ballot measures to pass with a simple majority rather than the two-thirds approval the 2016 measure required.
The initiative would raise…