LRB-1746/P3
FFK&KRP:all
2019 - 2020 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0238 - Urban Excellence Initiative
For 2019-2021 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
1. Grant opportunities for urban school districts
This bill provides various grant opportunities for urban school districts. Under the bill, an “urban school district” is a school district in which at least 18,000 pupils were enrolled in the 2018-19 school year (Green Bay Area Public School District, Madison Metropolitan School District, Milwaukee Public Schools, Kenosha Unified School District, and Racine Unified School District) and, in future school years, any other school district in which at least 18,000 pupils were enrolled in the previous school year.
Early childhood education grants. This bill creates an annual grant program under which DPI must award grants to urban school districts to develop, implement, and administer new or expanded early childhood education programs to enhance learning opportunities for young children residing in the urban school district and to prepare those children for entry into the elementary grades. Under the grant program, DPI must, with certain exceptions, award grants in the amount of $1,000 per eligible child who attends an urban school district's early childhood education program in the current school year. An “eligible child” is a child who resides in the urban school district and who is 1) three years old on or before September 1 in the relevant school year, or 2) less than three years old but eligible to attend the early childhood education program under the urban school district's early admission standards.
Summer school grants. Under current law, DPI must award a grant to a first class city school district (currently, only Milwaukee Public Schools) for the purpose of developing, redesigning, or implementing a summer school program. This bill expands eligibility for these summer school grants to include all urban school districts. Under the bill, DPI must annually allocate $2,000,000 in summer school grant funding to MPS and must allocate the remaining funding equally among the other urban school districts.
Grants for national teacher certification or master educator licensure. Under current law, DPI awards annual grants of $5,000 each to an individual who is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or licensed by DPI as a master educator and who works in a high poverty school. This bill increases the amount of these grants to $15,000, if the individual works at a high poverty school located in an urban school district, and to $10,000, if the individual works at a high poverty school located in a school district that is not an urban school district.
Community engagement grants. Under the bill, DPI must award grants to urban school districts for the purpose of supporting projects that include collaboration with a nonprofit corporation, a cooperative educational service agency, a UW System institution, a technical college district board, or a local unit of government and that are intended to improve academic achievement, the well-being of pupils and their families, or relationships between pupils, school staff, and the community.
Principal training grants. Under the bill, DPI must annually award a grant to a nonprofit organization or an urban school district for the purpose of providing training, coaching, and professional support to principals who work in urban school districts.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 20.255 (2) (dh) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (dh) Community engagement grants; urban school districts. The amounts in the schedule for community engagement grants under s. 115.449.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 20.255 (2) (di) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (di) Principal training and support; urban school districts. The amounts in the schedule for grants under s. 115.28 (66).
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
3. 20.255 (2) (dj) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.255 (2) (dj) Summer school
programs; grants; urban school districts
. The amounts in the schedule for grants to school boards
districts for summer school grant programs under s. 115.447.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 4
. 20.255 (2) (dm) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (dm) Early childhood education grants; urban school districts. The amounts in the schedule for early childhood education grants under s. 115.448.
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
5. 115.28 (66) of the statutes is created to read:
115.28 (66) Principal training and support; urban school districts. Annually, award a grant to a nonprofit organization or an urban school district for the purpose of providing training, coaching, and professional support to principals employed by urban school districts. For purposes of this subsection, “urban school district” has the meaning given in s. 115.42 (1c) (b).
Section 6
. 115.42 (1) of the statutes is renumbered 115.42 (1m), and 115.42 (1m) (a) 1., as renumbered, is amended to read:
115.42 (1m) (a) 1. The person is certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards or licensed by the department as a master educator under s. PI 34.19 34.042, Wis. Adm. Code.
Section 7
. 115.42 (1c) of the statutes is created to read:
115.42 (1c) In this section:
(a) “Pupils enrolled” has the meaning given in s. 121.004 (7).
(b) “Urban school district” means a school district that satisfies any of the following:
1. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the 2018-19 school year was at least 18,000.
2. The number of pupils enrolled in the school district in the previous school year was at least 18,000.
Section 8
. 115.42 (2) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
115.42 (2) (a) (intro.) Except as provided in par. (c), the department shall award 9 grants of $2,500 each to each person who received a grant under sub. (1) (1m) if the person satisfies all of the following requirements:
Section 9
. 115.42 (2) (bL) of the statutes is amended to read:
115.42 (2) (bL) The department shall award the grants under this subsection annually, one grant in each of the school years following the school year in which the grant under sub. (1) (1m) was awarded and in which the person satisfies the requirements under par. (a).
Section 10
. 115.42 (2) (c) of the statutes is renumbered 115.42 (2) (c) 1. (intro.) and amended to read:
115.42 (2) (c) 1. (intro.) The amount of each a grant under par. (a) shall be $5,000 is $10,000 in any school year in which the recipient is employed in a school in which at that satisfies all of the following:
a. At least 60 percent of the pupils enrolled
at the school satisfy the income eligibility criteria for a free or reduced-price lunch under
42 USC 1758 (b) (1).
Section 11
. 115.42 (2) (c) 1. b. of the statutes is created to read:
115.42 (2) (c) 1. b. The school is not located in an urban school district.
Section 12
. 115.42 (2) (c) 2. of the statutes is created to read:
115.42 (2) (c) 2. The amount of a grant under par. (a) is $15,000 in any school year in which the recipient is employed in a school that satisfies all of the following:
a. At least 60 percent of the pupils enrolled at the school satisfy the income eligibility criteria for a free or reduced-price lunch under
42 USC 1758 (b) (1).
b. The school is located in an urban school district.
Section 13
. 115.42 (2) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
115.42 (2) (d) In any of the 9 school years following the receipt of a grant under sub. (1) (1m) in which the grant recipient is evaluated under s. 115.415, if the grant recipient is placed in a performance category other than the “effective" or “highly effective" performance category in the applicable educator effectiveness system, as determined by the department, he or she is not eligible for a grant under this subsection in that school year.
Section
14. 115.447 (title) of the statutes is amended to read:
115.447 (title) Summer school
programs; grants; urban school districts
.
Section 15
. 115.447 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
115.447 (1) In this section, “eligible “urban school district” means a 1st class city school district has the meaning given in s. 115.42 (1c) (b).
Section 16
. 115.447 (2) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
115.447 (2) (intro.) Beginning in the 2018-19 school year and in each year thereafter, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (dj), the department shall award grants to eligible urban school districts to do any of the following:
Section 17
. 115.447 (2m) of the statutes is created to read:
115.447 (2m) Beginning in the 2019-20 school year and in each school year thereafter, the department shall allocate in each school year $2,000,000 for grants to an urban school district that is a 1st class city school district and shall allocate the remaining amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (dj) equally among the urban school districts that are not 1st class city school districts.
Section 18
. 115.448 of the statutes is created to read:
115.448 Early childhood education grants; urban school districts. (1) In this section:
(a) “Early childhood education program” means a program provided by an urban school district to enhance learning opportunities for young children residing in the urban school district and to prepare those children for entry into the elementary grades.
(b) “Eligible child” means a child who resides in an urban school district that provides an early childhood education program and who meets any of the following criteria:
1. The child is 3 years old on or before September 1 in the year the child proposes to attend the early childhood education program.
2. The child is less than 3 years old on or before September 1 in the year the child proposes to attend the early childhood education program, and the child is eligible to attend the early childhood education program under procedures, conditions, and standards the school board of the urban school district prescribes for early admission to the early childhood education program.
(c) “Urban school district” has the meaning given in s. 115.42 (1c) (b).
(2) An urban school district may annually submit to the department a statement that the urban school district is interested in receiving a grant award under this section.
(3) From the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (dm), beginning in the 2020-21 school year, the department shall annually award a grant in an amount determined under sub. (4) to an urban school district under sub. (2) that provides, or that will use the grant award to implement, an early childhood education program.
(4) Subject to sub. (6), the department shall award a grant under sub. (3) to an urban school district in the amount of $1,000 per eligible child who, in the current school year, attends the urban school district's early childhood education program. The urban school district shall report to the department the number of eligible children attending the urban school district's early childhood education program on the 3rd Friday of September in the current school year, and the department shall calculate the amount of the urban school district's grant award based on the attendance on that date.
(5) An urban school district that receives a grant under this section shall use the grant moneys to develop, implement, and administer a new or expanded early childhood education program, and the urban school district shall ensure that its early childhood education program meets the licensing requirements for child care centers established by the department of children and families, including staff to child ratios, required for participation in the quality rating system under s. 49.155 (6) (e).
(6) (a) If the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (dm) in any fiscal year is insufficient to pay the full amount under sub. (4) to all urban school districts entitled to receive grants under this section, the department shall prorate the payments among those urban school districts.
(b) If, after the department makes the payments to urban school districts required under sub. (4), moneys remain in the appropriation account under s. 20.255 (2) (dm) for the fiscal year, the department may distribute the balance of the funds remaining in that appropriation account to any of those urban school districts in amounts determined by the department.
Section
19. 115.449 of the statutes is created to read:
115.449 Community engagement grants; urban school districts. (1) In this section, “urban school district” has the meaning given in s. 115.42 (1c) (b).
(2) Annually, the department shall award a grant to each urban school district to support projects that satisfy the following criteria:
(a) The project includes collaboration with at least one of the following:
1. A nonstock, nonprofit corporation organized under ch. 181.
2. A cooperative educational service agency.
3. An institution within the University of Wisconsin System.
4. A technical college district board.
5. Any local unit of government.
(b) The project makes additional resources or services available to pupils and their families.
(c) The goal of the project is to improve the academic achievement of pupils, the well-being of pupils and their families, or relationships between pupils, school staff, and the community.
(3) In each school year, the amount of a grant under sub. (2) is the amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (dh) in that school year divided by the total number of urban school districts in that school year.
(4) The department may promulgate rules to implement and administer this section.
Section 9334.
Initial applicability; Public Instruction.
(1) Grants for national teacher certification or master educator licensure. The renumbering and amendment of s. 115.42 (1) and (2) (c) and the creation of s. 115.42 (1c) and (2) (c) 1. b. and 2. first apply to grants awarded in the 2019-20 school year.
(2) Summer school grant program. The treatment of s. 115.447 (2) (intro.) first applies to the 2019-20 school year.
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