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

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Having been built about 50 years ago, the Little Chute Area School District's Intermediate/Middle/High School was in need of a renovation.

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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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Mold found at DeForest Middle School forced the cancellation of some classes on Monday and Tuesday.

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Gov. Scott Walker and his Democratic challenger, Tony Evers, are tussling over tax increases.

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Gov. Scott Walker said Monday that if he's re-elected, he'll increase state spending on schools to two-thirds of their total costs, echoing a pledge made this summer by his Democratic opponent, Tony Evers.

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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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