Thursday, February 18, 2016

Where to find information on Wisconsin public school referenda




Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Custom Referenda/Resolution Reports

Table includes the following information
  • District
  • Vote date (e.g., 2/16/2016)
  • Amount (by school year and total, when appropriate)
  • Type
    • issue debt
    • exceed revenue cap on a recurring basis
    • exceed revenue cap on a non-recurring (NR) basis
    • exceed revenue cap for energy efficiencies on a non-recurring basis
  • Vote
    • Yes
    • No
    • Result
  • Brief description

The essential Wisconsin Budget Project Blog regularly reports on school referenda issues and results

Voters in 11 Districts Raise Taxes on Themselves for Schools  (2/17/2016)

Which includes this handy-dandy map showing the 78.5% success rate of Tuesday's school referenda.


These very conservative GOP legislators, highlighted below (including the gasket-blowin' Bob Gannon), would like to take away local control and make it more difficult for school district to go to the voters.  Fortunately, as reported in the WBP blogpost, the bill is not likely to pass.


AB481 mapped

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