51 school referenda on Nov. 3 ballot
A total of 51 local school district referenda questions in 41 school districts will be before voters when they go to the polls on Nov. 3.
Twenty-one of the 51 ballot questions request permission to issue debt for construction of new facilities or the maintenance or remodeling of existing school facilities. Overall, voters will be asked to approve nearly $927 million in borrowing for these projects. The largest asks are in Madison ($317 million); Wausau ($155 million) and Oshkosh ($107 million). The ballot questions in these three districts alone account for 62 percent ($579 million) of the overall borrowing requested statewide.
WASB government relations staff has identified several current or former Wisconsin school board members whose names will appear on the Nov. 3rd ballot, running for seats in either Congress or the Wisconsin Legislature. (If you are aware of others who we may have missed, please let us know and we will update this post accordingly.)