The Dodgeland School District is moving forward after voters  approved an operational referendum on April 7, authorizing the district to exceed the state revenue limit by $700,000 per year for four years. The referendum passed with 52 percent of the vote.

The approved referendum maintains the current level of funding and will support key operational needs. Dodgeland Schools Superintendent Todd Greco talked with WTKM. 

"In particular, what this money will be used for will be to continue to maintain our class sizes at the elementary school. Our current ratio at Dodgeland is about twenty-one students at the elementary level per class. We want to maintain that."

Also, sustaining advanced course offerings at the middle school and high school, and continuing middle school athletics.

Greco told WTKM that the district started to face some financial challenges in 2021.

"It was from an operational perspective and they started to slowly cut their budget."

$80,000 to $90,000 was cut in the beginning. Greco said it escalated from there.

"When I started in July, it was around an eight hundred thousand dollar deficit and we started to whittle it down a little bit after already having cut a number of teachers. The referendum is for operational purposes only and it helps protect our standard of education."