School property tax levies are going up by 4-1/2 percent this year.
Wisconsin Policy Forum researcher Jason Stein says that’s the largest increase in a decade. He says over the past four years, there were tighter limits on how much money school districts could collect through property taxes.
In the state budget, Governor Evers and lawmakers let districts collect an additional $175 per student, for the current year.
Stein says the second reason for the increase is the large number of referendum questions that voters passed to raise their school taxes.
