Although Wisconsin voters in early April approved more than $670 million worth of school building projects, the approval rate for these referendums slumped in this spring’s election from the record level it had hit last year.

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Voters on Tuesday approved $678.4 million worth of construction-related school referendums statewide in another big election cycle for K-12 building projects.

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Wisconsin voters will head to the polls on Tuesday to consider more than $1 billion worth of school referendum spending in another lucrative election that follows on a surge in public school construction last year.

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Wisconsin's recent surge in school construction is showing no signs of slowing down, with voters throughout the state being asked to consider more than $1 billion in school-construction referendums this April.

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School referendums approved by voters in Wisconsin this year have broken records for the total amount and percentage passed.

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A quiet trend may be emerging after the midterm election on Tuesday: Wisconsin municipalities, hampered by years of slow revenue growth, are passing referendums in record numbers to raise cash for road projects and pay for services.

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Wisconsin voters approved more than $1.2 billion worth of school-construction projects around the state on Tuesday as part of a flurry of spending that was embraced in nearly all cases.

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Wisconsin voters will have a chance on Tuesday to set a record for school referendum spending in 2018, with $1.4 billion worth of requests on the ballot.

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Last week, The Daily Reporter posted an article about school districts’ referendum requests heading into the Nov. 6 election. The article, with no attribution or data to support its claim, stated: “Construction companies have also become more aggressive about pushing for higher school spending.”

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Less than a month before election day, Gov. Scott Walker and his Democratic challenger Tony Evers are back in a statistical dead heat, according to a new Marquette University Law School poll released on Wednesday.

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