Merger petition will be certified for two Wisconsin school districts
The effort to put a school merger on the ballot is being tested. A petition to have residents in both the Chetek and Weyerhaeuser school districts vote on a merger between the two is being certified Thursday night. The two school boards recently voted to consolidate next July. A petition to send that decision to a referendum then started going around Weyerhaeuser.  The petition was turned in with 132 signatures. Only 52 valid signatures are needed to put the merger on the ballot. That petition is being certified.