{"id":9823,"date":"2024-03-29T17:30:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T18:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9823"},"modified":"2024-03-29T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T19:00:26","slug":"wisconsin-taxpayers-besieged-with-tuesday-school-referendum-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=9823","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin taxpayers besieged with Tuesday school referendum requests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/wisconsin-taxpayers-besieged-with-tuesday-school-referendum-requests\/\">https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/wisconsin-taxpayers-besieged-with-tuesday-school-referendum-requests\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Milwaukee, New Richmond, Mukwonago, Freedom and Shawano districts are most aggressive<\/h4>\n<p>Among 85 Wisconsin school districts seeking tax hikes Tuesday, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is making far and away the biggest ask.<\/p>\n<p>Collectively, districts of all sizes in all corners of the state are asking voters to approve referendums seeking billions of dollars in increased revenue or borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>Most are asking voters either for permission to borrow money for capital projects or maintenance, or for temporary revenue limit increases. Some, like Milwaukee, seek permanent revenue limit increases that will hike taxes year after year. Still others \u2013 including Drummond, Richland, Hamilton, River Valley, Lake Country, Port Edwards and North Lakeland \u2013 have more than one referendum on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>MPS is seeking an eventual, permanent increase to its revenue limit of $252 million annually. The Badger Institute, after researching MPS\u2019 track record in variety of areas, recommends a \u201cno\u201d vote.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"413\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/e74sq7k37a8.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Referendum-Lists-413x1024.png?strip=all&amp;lossy=1&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51099\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/wisconsin-taxpayers-besieged-with-tuesday-school-referendum-requests\/\">Wisconsin taxpayers besieged with Tuesday school referendum requests<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\">Badger Institute<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.badgerinstitute.org\/wisconsin-taxpayers-besieged-with-tuesday-school-referendum-requests\/ Milwaukee, New Richmond, Mukwonago, Freedom and Shawano districts are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9825,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-badger-institute"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9824,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9823\/revisions\/9824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}