# ISD 197 *Minnesota school district (Dakota County); its November 2023 referenda appear in the project's Dakota County at-issue record.* ISD 197 is a school district in Dakota County, [[Minnesota]]. The project's Dakota County claims-exposure matrix, dated September 2, 2026, records that ISD 197 voters passed a $731-per-pupil operating increase in November 2023 by 60.00 percent and a technology levy by 66.76 percent.[^1] The matrix lists ISD 197 with three other Dakota County districts, [[ISD 191]], [[ISD 196]] and [[ISD 194]], under at-issue row AI-Dakota-083. The row is anchored to a March 2025 presidential action, *Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse*.[^1][^2] The record shows the referendum results. It does not establish why the measures were placed on the ballot or how the proceeds were spent. ## Who ISD 197 is one of four Dakota County school districts whose voter-approved or pending ballot measures the matrix groups in a single at-issue row. Its voters approved two measures at the November 2023 election.[^1] ## What The two ISD 197 measures were a $731-per-pupil operating increase, passed by 60.00 percent, and a technology levy, passed by 66.76 percent.[^1] ## When - November 2023: ISD 197 voters approve the $731-per-pupil operating increase (60.00 percent) and the technology levy (66.76 percent).[^1] - 2023: ISD 196 passes a bond.[^1] - November 5, 2024: ISD 191 renews a technology capital levy by 65.76 percent.[^1] - May 12, 2026: a $139.6 million ISD 194 bond is on the ballot, with levies running twenty-one years.[^1] ## Where Dakota County, Minnesota.[^1] ## How much - ISD 197 operating increase: $731 per pupil, approved November 2023.[^1] - ISD 194 bond on the May 12, 2026 ballot: $139.6 million, with levies running twenty-one years.[^1] ## How many The matrix row covers four Dakota County school districts: ISD 191, ISD 194, ISD 196 and ISD 197. The row lists four underlying sources, drawn from election results and self-published material.[^1] ## In the at-issue record At-issue row AI-Dakota-083 appears in section "VI. THE MONEY" of the Dakota package. Its rank is 83 and its shock score is 73.[^1] The row is anchored to the White House presidential action *Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse*.[^2] The matrix gives the reason for the anchor as follows: the instrument residents vote on is the bill, not the program.[^1] The pack does not show what part of that presidential action, if any, applies to school-district levies. ## Notes [^1]: Dakota Claims Exposure Matrix, *At-issue row AI-Dakota-083* (2026-09-02) — records the ISD 197 November 2023 operating increase ($731 per pupil, 60.00 percent) and technology levy (66.76 percent), the ISD 191 November 5, 2024 renewal (65.76 percent), the ISD 196 2023 bond, and the ISD 194 $139.6 million bond on the May 12, 2026 ballot. The row's underlying sources are election results and self-published district and municipal-advisor material on the domains electionresults.sos.mn.gov, district196.org and ehlers-inc.com. None of them is among the pack's allowed URLs, so no URL is given. [^2]: The White House, *Protecting America's Bank Account Against Fraud, Waste, and Abuse* (March 2025) — the presidential action named as the anchor of row AI-Dakota-083; it does not itself report the referendum results. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/protecting-americas-bank-account-against-fraud-waste-and-abuse/