When Parkview Superintendent Steve Lutzke talks to fellow superintendents, the question isn't, "Are you going to referendum?"
The question is, "When are you going to referendum?"
Declining enrollments and increasing costs that exceed revenue limits plague the Orfordville-based Parkview School District and its neighbor to the west, Brodhead. The results are referendums in both districts April 6 asking voters for permission to exceed state revenue caps.
"They have a lot of company," said John Ashley, executive director of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.
Parkview and Brodhead join 34 other districts in the state planning 48 referendums on next month's ballot. Of those, 26 referendums are to exceed revenue caps.
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