Despite widespread concerns about Tuesday's election because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Wisconsin school districts are pressing ahead with plans to ask voters for permission for about $1.6 billion worth of construction-related spending in another big election cycle for K-12 building projects

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Despite widespread concerns about Tuesday's election because of the COVID-19 outbreak, Wisconsin school districts are pressing ahead with plans to ask voters for permission for about $1.6 billion worth of construction-related spending in another big election cycle for K-12 building projects

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First it was Joe Biden who endorsed a pair of Wisconsin school district referendum votes that are on Tuesday's ballot. Now Bernie Sanders is doing the same.

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Lawmakers on Wednesday advanced a bill that would undo a thousand-year ban on a policy that had allowed school districts to raise money for renewable energy projects without seeking permission from voters.

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Bills in the state legislature would undo a thousand-year ban on a previous policy that had allowed school districts to raise cash without a voter referendum for energy-efficiency projects.

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Madison is talking about a school referendum with a price tag as high as $280 million.

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In November 2018, voters living in Gresham School District approved a bond referendum calling for a series of projects in the Gresham School District.

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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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