Legislative proposals have been presented that intend to restrict school referendums in Wisconsin – Civic Media

Madison, wis. (Civil Media) – a set of proposals designed to restrict the practice of voting measures placed by Wisconsin’s school districts have been introduced into the state legislative body for sponsorship.

The trio of legislative notes would remove repeated referendums, require tax impact reports as part of the newsletter referendum language and block large referendums from calculating equalization assistance.

After a record year for a Wisconsin school referendums, there are 94 planned for this spring, including five on Tuesday in the primary one. Legislators are concerned that the amount of school referendums will contribute to increasing taxes on ownership and inequality distribution of state aid.

The first proposal aimed at recurring operational referendums is the author of Republican reporter Cindy Dukhov and Senator Chris Kapega. This will limit the operational referendums to four years. The note states that recurring referendums will take power from taxpayers who cannot vote on whether to continue to exceed the limits of the fee to pay for operations in school districts.

The number two proposal will add forecast tax impacts to the referendum language language. Most school districts already provide this information easily, but the proposal adds several financial figures to the newsletter. Republican representative Scott Alan and Senator Rachel Cabral-Gevara are the author of the proposal, justifying it, saying that helps voters make informed choices.

Finally, the third proposal will remove over $ 50 million referendum funds from the equalized help formula. The authors are Republican representative Scott Alan and Senator Julian Bradley. The aim is to prevent loss of equalization help from other areas in the country to help cover major referendums. The Memorandum cites Milwaukee and lists examples of Madison, Woker and Woeta as areas that send Milwaukee money.

The state legislative body has already introduced several bills involved in educational topics, including repeated bills from the latest legislative session on the reviews of curricula and the accumulated writing. Some of the other accounts, including the ban on electronic communication devices from the classrooms requiring 70% of the area budgets to be spent on classrooms, grants for school safety and adding a civil course.