{"id":2331,"date":"2023-04-21T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2023-04-21T12:20:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T12:20:39","slug":"education-watch-whats-next-after-referendum-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=2331","title":{"rendered":"Education Watch \u2013 What\u2019s Next after Referendum Failure?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-whats-next-after-referendum-failure\/\">https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-whats-next-after-referendum-failure\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>From the <\/b><b>Appleton Post-Crescent<\/b><b>:<\/b><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span>\u201cThis spring\u2019s election saw the lowest passage rate for school district referendums statewide in over a decade. Wisconsin voters approved a little over half of the 83 referendums on ballots earlier this month.\u201d Read more <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postcrescent.com\/story\/news\/education\/2023\/04\/17\/wisconsin-voters-approved-only-half-of-school-district-referendums\/70108246007\"><span>here<\/span><\/a><span> and see the referenda <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/sfs.dpi.wi.gov\/Referenda\/CustomReporting.aspx\"><span>here<\/span><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2039\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Quinton-e1660321888133-300x300-1.jpeg\" alt=\"Quinton Klabon\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional context from IRG Senior Research Director Quinton Klabon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>School referenda used to fail quite often, but ramped up in the 2010s. 55% is low considering recent history. However, this is still $647 million in approved funding increases.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Wisconsin is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban.org\/research\/publication\/assessing-national-landscape-capital-expenditures-public-school-districts\"><span>1 of just 7 states nationwide<\/span><\/a><span> that provides no direct support to districts to renovate schools, whether through direct funding, matching grants, or favorable loan terms. Competitive processes for frugal districts that consolidate schools as birth rates and enrollments decline could be a normal part of Wisconsin\u2019s budget diet.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/reforminggovernment.org\/education-watch-whats-next-after-referendum-failure\/ From the Appleton Post-Crescent: \u201cThis spring\u2019s election saw the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-institute-for-reforming-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2333,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2331\/revisions\/2333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}