The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill allowing low-spending school districts in Wisconsin to raise property taxes without a vote. The bill, passed 91-2 on Tuesday, would apply only to districts where votes have not rejected a property-tax increase in the past three years. The goal is to eliminate an inequity in the school aid formula that has penalized low-spending districts.

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At a time when school districts have been seeing most of the construction projects they propose go on to win voters’ approval in referendums, two big projects went down to defeat at the ballot box this week. A handful of school districts ...

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A bill that would double the threshold determining when public projects must be put out to bid received the backing of a State Senate committee on Thursday. Specifically, the legislation would raise the state’s bidding threshold for public projects from $25,000 to ...

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As lawmakers prepare to vote on a bill that would both increase the thresholds that determine when public projects must be put out to bid and subject school districts to the state’s competitive-bidding rules, a school-board association says its opposition to the proposal has ...

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Facing a looming state-imposed deadline to sell vacant or underused school buildings to private institutions, Milwaukee officials are expressing concerns about what might happen to the properties should the new operators fail.

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The movement to get more students interested in science, technology, engineering and mathematics hadn't arrived at the high school that Michelle Williams attended in West Bend.

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The University of Wisconsin-Madison announced Friday its campus buildings administrator is leaving to take a vice president role at John Hopkins University.

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Voters in the Brown Deer School District in Milwaukee County passed two referendums Tuesday to allow the district to consolidate elementary schools and expand the gym and indoor track at the high school.

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School districts around the state are trying to buck the trend of higher taxes and lower individual income by asking for building referendums around the state Tuesday.

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When Tony Luciano steps into the classroom, he brings the real world with him.

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