{"id":13738,"date":"2024-10-31T18:08:49","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T19:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13738"},"modified":"2024-10-31T19:57:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T19:57:53","slug":"poll-wisconsin-voters-reluctant-to-approve-tax-increases-for-school-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=13738","title":{"rendered":"Poll: Wisconsin Voters Reluctant to Approve Tax Increases for School Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/poll-wisconsin-voters-reluctant-to-approve-tax-increases-for-school-funding\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/poll-wisconsin-voters-reluctant-to-approve-tax-increases-for-school-funding\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Untitled-design-9.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"IRG Wisconsin Drop Its Income Tax\" title=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 With a total of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/wisconsin\/article_13f4fa70-8a39-11ef-b574-0f4f20e7debc.html\">137 local school referendum questions<\/a> spread across ballots in Wisconsin, recent data shows voters\u2019 support for increasing property taxes to fund public education is waning.<\/p>\n<p>Marquette Law School polled 834 registered Wisconsin voters from Oct. 16-24, asking their opinions on presidential candidates, the direction of the state, and public school referendums, among other things.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/poll\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MLSP83PressRelease.pdf\">poll<\/a> found that voters\u2019 desire to prioritize public school spending over lower property taxes peaked in late 2018, when 57% of Wisconsin registered voters polled said increasing school spending was more important and only 37% said reducing property taxes was more important.<\/p>\n<p>But now, voter support for increasing school district funding has fallen to its lowest level since Marquette began tracking the sentiment in 2013, with only 44% in the most recent survey saying school spending is more important, versus 55% who chose lower property taxes. The change occurs even as voters\u2019 reported satisfaction with Wisconsin schools has returned to November 2023 levels, though not to pre-pandemic levels.<\/p>\n<p>School districts in Wisconsin are subject to a 1993 state law that places limits on how much local governments can increase their property taxes each year. But a district\u2019s property taxes can be raised above the revenue limit through voter-approved ballot proposals.<\/p>\n<p>This past spring, voters across the state approved 62 of the 103 school referendum questions on the ballot, the lowest approval numbers in a midterm or presidential election year since 2010, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/wispolicyforum.org\/research\/school-referenda-passage-rates-remain-low\/\">Wisconsin Policy Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/poll-wisconsin-voters-reluctant-to-approve-tax-increases-for-school-funding\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 With a total of 137&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13741,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13738\/revisions\/13741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}