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SUBCHAPTER II
14STATE SUPERINTENDENT DEPARTMENT
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OF
PUBLIC INSTRUCTION EDUCATION
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(3m) (a)
Supervise and audit the receipts and expenditures of the
19cooperative educational service agencies, conduct program review of the agencies,
20approve agency evaluations, supervise boundary reorganization where necessary,
21advise the administrators of the agencies and provide assistance in organizing the
22agencies throughout the state.
The state superintendent shall adopt
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23(b) Promulgate rules establishing procedures for the reorganization of
24cooperative educational service agencies and boundary appeals.
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(3m) (c) Every 3rd year as scheduled by the department, report to the
2appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3) on all
3cooperative educational service agency programs and services. The report shall
4include information on the efficiency and effectiveness of the programs and services.
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(7) (a) License all teachers for the public schools of the state, make rules
7establishing standards of attainment and procedures for the examination and
8licensing of teachers within the limits prescribed in ss. 118.19 (2) and (3), 118.192 and
9118.195, prescribe by rule standards and procedures for the approval of teacher
10preparatory programs leading to licensure, file in
his or her the secretary's office all
11papers relating to state teachers' licenses and register each such license.
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(7m) Certification of school nurses. Certify school nurses, make
14rules for the examination and certification of school nurses and file in the
15superintendent's secretary's office all papers relating to school nurses certification
16and register each such certification.
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(20) Council for Milwaukee public schools grant programs. (intro.)
19Appoint At the commencement of each gubernatorial term of office, appoint a council
20under s. 15.04 (1) (c) composed of residents of the school district established under
21ch. 119 who are selected to reflect the pluralistic nature of the school district. The
22council shall:
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(20) (a) Advise the
state superintendent secretary on funding criteria
2and evaluation plans for grant programs for the school district operating under ch.
3119.
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(20) (b) Advise the
state superintendent secretary on the programs that
6meet or do not meet the funding criteria.
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(20) (c) Assist the
state superintendent secretary in monitoring the
9progress of funded programs.
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(20) (d) Recommend to the
state superintendent secretary needed
12changes in statutes or rules relating to grant programs.
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(20) (e) Submit to the
state superintendent secretary an annual report
15detailing the council's activities, accomplishments and projected needs.
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(21) Youth initiatives program. Administer grants to local community
18organizations for standardized assessment and programs for instruction in basic
19skills and work experience under the youth initiatives program. The state
20superintendent may require a school board to provide matching funds at any
21percentage. The match may be in the form of money or in-kind services or both. The
22state superintendent shall establish, by rule, performance standards for the youth
23initiatives program and shall monitor performances by grantees.
This subsection
24does not apply after June 30, 1996.
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(24) Priority in awarding grants. Give priority in awarding grants to
2local community organizations under sub. (21)
, and to school boards under
s. ss. 3115.36
, and 115.362
and 118.019 (6) and to cooperative educational service agencies
4under s. 118.019 (6), and in awarding grants from federal funds received under
20
5USC 2301 to
2471,
20 USC 4601 to
4665 and
29 USC 1602 (b) (1), to programs that
6provide more than one of the educational services specified under sub. (21), s. 115.36,
7115.362, 115.915, 118.01 (2) (d) 7. or 8.
, 118.019 (6) or 118.153 or
20 USC 2301 to
2471,
820 USC 4601 to
4665 or
29 USC 1602 (b) (1).
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(27) Wisconsin geography alliance. Annually allocate the amount in
12the appropriation under s. 20.255
(1) (3) (ec) to the Wisconsin geography alliance to
13train teachers and develop curricula for primary and secondary education in
14geography. This subsection does not apply after June 30, 1996.
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(35) Grants for collaborative projects. From the appropriation under
17s. 20.255 (2) (ef), award a $300,000 grant to a rural school district, a suburban school
18district and an urban school district, other than the school district operating under
19ch. 119, for projects, conducted in collaboration with the county social services
20department or the county human services department, that integrate social services
21and school responsibilities as they relate to pupils and their parents. One-third of
22the total grant amount shall be paid in each of 3 consecutive school years. The state
23superintendent shall give preference in awarding grants to projects that provide for
24the delivery of services in a single location.
No grant may be awarded under this
25subsection after June 30, 1996.
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(38) (title)
Reporting of pupils attending vocational schools
3technical colleges. In consultation with the
technical college system board
of
4vocational, technical and adult education, promulgate rules establishing a uniform
5format for school boards to use in reporting the number of pupils attending
6vocational, technical
and adult education college districts under ss. 118.15 (1) (b),
7(cm) and (d) and 118.37 and in reporting pupil participation in technical preparation
8programs under s. 118.34, including the number of courses taken for advanced
9standing in a
vocational, technical
and adult education college district's associate
10degree program and for
vocational, technical
and adult education college credit. The
11format shall be identical to the format established by the
technical college system 12board
of vocational, technical and adult education under s. 38.04 (11) (a) 2.
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(39) Adult literacy. Designate an employe of the department as the
15adult literacy advocate to establish a statewide program to improve adult literacy.
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17115.29 General powers. (intro.) The
state superintendent secretary may:
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(1) Designate representative. Designate the deputy
state
20superintendent secretary or another employe of the department as the
state
21superintendent's secretary's representative on any body on which the
state
22superintendent secretary is required to serve, except the board of regents of the
23university of Wisconsin system.
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(2) Educational meetings. Attend such educational meetings and make
2such investigations as the
state superintendent secretary deems important and as
3will acquaint the
state superintendent secretary with the different systems of public
4schools in the United States.
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(4) High school graduation equivalency. Grant declarations of
7equivalency of high school graduation to persons, if in the
state superintendent's 8secretary's judgment they have presented satisfactory evidence of having completed
9a recognized high school course of study or its equivalent. The
state superintendent 10secretary may establish the standards by which high school graduation equivalency
11is determined. Such standards may consist of evidence of high school courses
12completed in high schools recognized by the proper authorities as accredited, results
13of examinations given by or at the request of the
state superintendent secretary,
14successful completion of correspondence study courses given by acceptable
15correspondence study schools, a general educational development certificate of high
16school equivalency issued by an agency of the U.S. government, course credits
17received in schools meeting the approval of the
state superintendent secretary or
18other standards established by the
state superintendent secretary.
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(4) (a) The condition of all schools under the
state superintendent's 21department's supervision.
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(4) (c) The
state superintendent's secretary's visits to educational
24institutions.
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(4) (f) A summary of the receipts and disbursements of all schools under
2the
state superintendent's department's jurisdiction.
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4115.32 Certification of athletic associations; appeals. (1) Beginning July
51, 1996, the department shall certify school athletic associations. No athletic
6association may be certified unless it allows private schools to join the association
7and to participate as members of a conference during regular season play and in
8postseason tournaments. No public school or school district may be a member of an
9athletic association that is not certified under this subsection. Nothing in this
10subsection prevents an athletic association from adopting uniform rules governing
11its affairs, including suspending schools or their pupils from the athletic association
12for violations of those rules.
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13(2) A school board or governing body of a private school that is a member of an
14athletic association certified under sub. (1) may appeal to the department under s.
15115.28 (5) any decision made by the governing body of the association that adversely
16affects the school district or private school. A school board or private school may not
17commence an action relating to a decision made by the governing body of a certified
18athletic association until the final decision of the department is issued.
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(2) (a) (intro.) The state superintendent may request the department
21of
industry, labor and human relations development to inspect a public school if any
22of the following occurs:
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(2) (b) The department of
industry, labor and human relations 2development shall inspect the school within 30 days after receiving a request from
3the state superintendent under par. (a).
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(3) (a) If the state superintendent determines that a school is not in
6compliance, and the department of
industry, labor and human relations 7development, based on its inspection of the school, concurs in the determination, the
8state superintendent may order the school board to repair, improve, remodel or close
9the school by a stated date. An order issued under this paragraph constitutes a
10preliminary finding of noncompliance with the standard under s. 121.02 (1) (i).
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(3) (b) 1. If the state superintendent determines that a school is not in
13compliance and is not worth repairing, and the department of
industry, labor and
14human relations development, based on its inspection of the school, concurs in the
15determination, the state superintendent may order the school board to develop a
16plan that describes how the school board will achieve compliance with the standard
17under s. 121.02 (1) (i). The plan shall specify the time within which compliance with
18the standard under s. 121.02 (1) (i) shall be achieved. The state superintendent shall
19hold a public hearing on the plan in the school district and may, as a result of the
20hearing, recommend changes to the plan. The state superintendent may withhold
21up to 25% of the school district's state aid if the school district fails to achieve
22compliance with the standard under s. 121.02 (1) (i) within the period specified in the
23plan.
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(1) Any school district approved by the
superintendent department 2may establish a system to provide the opportunity for authorized elderly persons to
3participate in its school lunch program. If a school board desires to establish such
4a service, it shall develop a plan for the provision of food services for elderly persons
5and submit the plan to the
superintendent department. Upon petition of 5% of the
6voters in the school district who voted in the last school board election, the school
7board shall formulate a food services plan, provided that hot food service facilities
8are available to school children in the district.
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9(2) Each plan shall provide at least one meal per day for each day that school
10is in regular session. The school board may provide additional service at other times
11in its discretion, if the number of eligible persons in the district or adjacent districts
12is of sufficient size, in the opinion of the
superintendent department, so that
13unwarranted production expense is not incurred.
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14(3) Any school board which operates a food services plan for elderly persons
15under this section shall make facilities available for service to elderly persons at
16every high school and junior high school in the district which provides hot food
17service to its students. Upon application, the
superintendent department may grant
18exceptions from compliance with this subsection for reasons of safety, convenience
19or insufficient interest in a given neighborhood. The school board may, in addition,
20provide service at elementary schools if desired.
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21(4) Meals may be served at schools where they are served to students or at any
22site more convenient to the majority of authorized elderly persons interested in the
23service. Food may be transported to authorized elderly persons who are unable to
24leave their homes or distributed to nonprofit organizations for such purposes.
25However, no state funds under this section may be used for food delivery to individual
1homes. The
superintendent department may require consolidation of programs
2between districts and between schools if such a procedure will be convenient and
3economical.
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(6) All meals served must meet the approval of the
superintendent who 6department which shall establish minimum nutritional standards not inconsistent
7with federal standards and reasonable expenditure limits such that the average cost
8per meal is not excessive. The
superintendent department shall give special
9consideration to dietary problems of elderly persons in formulating a nutritional
10plan. However, no school board shall be required to provide special foods for
11individual persons with allergies or medical disorders.
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12(7) Participants in a program under this section may be required to document
13their Wisconsin residency in a manner approved by the department. The
14superintendent department may issue identification cards to such persons if
15necessary.
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16(7m) A private school may establish a food services plan for elderly persons.
17If the plan meets all of the requirements of this section and is approved by the
state
18superintendent department, the private school is eligible for reimbursement in the
19same manner as school districts under sub. (5).
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20(8) The
superintendent department shall adopt reasonable rules necessary to
21implement this section.
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23115.347 Direct certification of eligibility for school nutrition
24programs. (1) Beginning in the 1994-95 school year, a school board may submit
25enrollment data to the department of
health and social services industry, labor and
1human relations for the purpose of directly certifying children as eligible for free or
2reduced-price meals under the federal school nutrition programs. The department
3of
health and social services industry, labor and human relations shall prescribe a
4format for the report.
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5(2) Whenever a school district that is located in whole or in part in a county that
6has converted to the client assistance for reemployment and economic support data
7system submits a report under sub. (1) in the prescribed format, the department of
8health and social services industry, labor and human relations shall determine
9which children enrolled in the school district are members of families receiving aid
10to families with dependent children or food stamps, or both, and shall provide the
11information to the school board as soon thereafter as possible. The school board shall
12use the information to directly certify children as eligible for free or reduced-price
13meals served by the school district under federal school nutrition programs,
14pursuant to
42 USC 1758 (b) (2) (C) (ii) and (iii).
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15(3) The state superintendent shall assist school boards in developing a method
16for submitting enrollment data to the department of
health and social services 17industry, labor and human relations under sub. (1).
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(5) (c) As to the
state superintendent's department's recommendations
20to improve such programs and cooperation.
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(2) (e)
Create At the commencement of each gubernatorial term of office,
23create a council under s. 15.04 (1) (c) to advise the department concerning the
24administration of this section.
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(5) (c) 3. Annually by July 1, evaluate the programs funded under this
2subsection and submit a report describing
his or her
its conclusions and
3recommendations to the chief clerk of each house of the legislature for distribution
4to the appropriate standing committees under s. 13.172 (3).
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(1) The department shall make grants to school districts
and
7cooperative educational service agencies for alcohol and other drug abuse
8prevention, intervention and instruction programs. The department shall award at
9least 30 grants each school year.
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(3) Except for grants under sub. (2) (a), no school district
or cooperative
12educational service agency may receive more than one grant under this section.
13Grants awarded under sub. (2) (a) shall not be used to supplant or replace funds
14otherwise available for the program.
