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Pope and Others Propose Voucher Accountability Package
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | December 11, 2019
From The Wheeler Report . . .
Reps. Sondy Pope and Dave Considine and Sens. Jon Erpenbach and Janet Bewley are circulating four bills as part of their “Voucher School Accountability to Protect Property Taxpayers” package.
LRB-4156 Memo Special Needs Scholarships (Pope, Sondy) Phasing out the Special Needs Scholarship Program and limiting enrollment in parental choice programs.
- This bill provides that starting in the 2020-21 school year, DPI may not provide a Special Needs Scholarship Program (SNSP) scholarship to a child to attend a private school unless the child was attending a private school under the SNSP in the 2019-20 school year. The bill also caps the total number of students who may participate in the parental choice programs – The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, the Racine Parental Choice Program, or the statewide parental choice program, to the number of students who attended under a choice program in the 2019-20 school year.
LRB-4164 Memo Teacher Licensure (Pope, Sondy) Teacher licensure in parental choice programs and in the Special Needs Scholarship Program and granting rule-making authority.
- This bill, with certain exceptions, requires that beginning on July 1, 2022, teachers at private schools participating in a parental choice program or SNSP must hold a license or permit issued by DPI. The bill provides a grace period for a teacher who has been teaching for at least the five consecutive years immediately preceding July 1, 2022, to apply for a temporary, nonrenewable waiver of the licensure requirements. The applicant must submit a plan for becoming a licensed teacher.
LRB-3674 Memo School Aid (Bewley, Janet) State aid to the resident school district of a pupil attending a private school under the Racine or statewide parental choice program.
- This bill prohibits DPI from making reductions in state aid paid to a school district until the electors of the school district have approved the reduction in aid by a referendum vote.
LRB-5044 Memo Per Pupil Payments (Erpenbach, Jon) Per pupil payments to private schools participating in parental choice programs.
- This bill changes the calculation of the per pupil amount DPI pays to participating private schools in the Racine Parental Choice Program and the statewide parental choice program. The bill says for each pupil attending a private school under the choice program, DPI must pay the private school the lesser of a.) the per pupil amount under current law; 2.) the amount the private school charges a pupil who is not attending the private school under a choice program for tuition and educational fees; or c.) the per pupil amount of state aid for the pupil’s resident school district, as calculated on October 15 of that school year.
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