(The Center Square) – The Madison Metropolitan School District has proposed a 2026 budget to support new staff, increased wages and construction projects that would raise district property taxes by $80.5 million, or 20.2%.
The plan would cause property taxes to rise by $834 annually on an average-value Madison home on Dec. 2025 tax bills, according to a report by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.
This would be more than twice as large as the previous record for the district’s property tax increase, according to Wisconsin Policy Forum’s available data going back to 1994…