Despite growing opposition to property tax hikes, Wisconsin voters show increased support for school referendums

[RandySF]

Voters approved more than 60% of school district referendums last week as schools face declining enrollment, rising inflation and stagnant state funding.

Over $1 billion in referendums from 73 school districts were on the ballot Tuesday. Wisconsin voters passed 46 out of 75 school referendums, totaling over $564 million in increased property taxes.

The resulting 61% passage rate is below the 70% average from 2020 to 2025 but slightly above last year’s 56%.

Wisconsin school districts are increasingly patching holes in their budgets with referendums, which ask voters whether school districts can increase property taxes beyond the limits set by state law to generate more revenue.



https://wisconsinwatch.org/2026/04/wisconsin-voters-school-district-referendum-funding-support-property-tax-election-2026/

[Figarosmom]

1. That's because Walker made it near impossible

To get schools funded in the first place.
And it's time to legalize pot to fund schools. People in the state are going to the neighboring states to buy it and those are taxes not going to our state but to Illinois and Minnesota and Michigan. Almost all the cities in the state have decriminalization it anyway.

I don't get our state Congress and way they can't get it done.