118.40 (7) (am) 2. A charter school established under sub. (2r) or a private school located in the school district operating under ch. 119 that is converted to a charter school is not an instrumentality of the any school district operating under ch. 119 and the
no school board of that school district may not employ any personnel for the charter school. If the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside contracts for the establishment of a charter school under sub. (2r), the board of regents of the University of Wisconsin System may employ instructional staff for the charter school.
16,2729
Section 2729. 118.43 (2) (f) of the statutes is repealed.
16,2730
Section 2730. 118.43 (2) (g) of the statutes is created to read:
118.43 (2) (g) The department may renew an achievement guarantee contract under pars. (b), (bg), and (br) for one or more terms of 5 school years. As a condition of receiving payments under a renewal of an achievement guarantee contract, a school board shall maintain the reduction of class size achieved during the last school year of the original achievement guarantee contract for the grades specified for the last school year of the contract.
16,2734
Section 2734. 118.43 (6) (b) 7. of the statutes is amended to read:
118.43 (6) (b) 7. In the 2001-02 and 2002-03 school years, $2,000 multiplied by the number of low-income pupils enrolled in grades eligible for funding in each school in the school district covered by contracts under sub. (3) (am) and by renewals of contracts under sub. (2) (g). After making these payments, the department shall pay school districts on behalf of schools that are covered by contracts under sub. (3) (ar), an amount equal to $2,000 multiplied by the number of low-income pupils enrolled in grades eligible for funding in each school in the school district covered by contracts under sub. (3) (ar).
16,2735
Section 2735. 118.43 (6) (b) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
118.43 (6) (b) 8. In the 2003-04 and 2004-05 school years, $2,000 multiplied by the number of low-income pupils enrolled in grades eligible for funding in each school in the school district covered by contracts under sub. (3) (ar) and by renewals of contracts under sub. (2) (g).
16,2738
Section 2738. 118.51 (3) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
118.51 (3) (a) 2. A nonresident school board may not act on any application received under subd. 1. until after the 3rd Friday following the first Monday in February. If a nonresident school board receives more applications for a particular grade or program than there are spaces available in the grade or program, the nonresident school board shall determine which pupils to accept on a random basis, after giving preference to pupils and to siblings of pupils who are already attending public school in the nonresident school district. If a nonresident school board determines that space is not otherwise available for open enrollment pupils in the grade or program to which an individual has applied, the school board may nevertheless accept an applicant who is already attending school in the nonresident school district or a sibling of the applicant.
16,2739
Section 2739. 118.51 (4) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
118.51 (4) (a) 3. A statement of the preference required under sub. (5) (c) (3) (a) 2.
16,2740
Section 2740. 118.51 (5) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
118.51 (5) (a) Permissible criteria. (intro.) Except as provided in par. (c) sub. (3) (a) 2., the criteria for accepting and rejecting applications from nonresident pupils under sub. (3) (a) may include only the following:
16,2741
Section 2741. 118.51 (5) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
118.51 (5) (a) 1. The availability of space in the schools, programs, classes, or grades within the nonresident school district, including any. In determining the availability of space, the nonresident school board may consider criteria such as class size limits, pupil-teacher ratios, pupils attending the school district for whom tuition is paid under s. 121.78 (1) (a) or enrollment projections established by the nonresident school board and may include in its count of occupied spaces pupils attending the school district for whom tuition is paid under s. 121.78 (1) (a) and pupils and siblings of pupils who have applied under sub. (3) (a) and are already attending public school in the nonresident school district.
16,2742
Section 2742. 118.51 (5) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
16,2744
Section 2744. 118.52 (11) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
118.52
(11) (b)
Low-income assistance. The parent of a pupil who is attending a course in a public school in a nonresident school district under this section may apply to the department for reimbursement of the costs incurred by the parent for the transportation of the pupil to and from the pupil's residence or school in which the pupil is enrolled and the school at which the pupil is attending the course if the pupil and parent are unable to pay the cost of such transportation. The department shall determine the reimbursement amount and shall pay the amount from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2)
(cw) (cy). The department shall give preference under this paragraph to those pupils who are eligible for a free or reduced-price lunch under
42 USC 1758 (b).
16,2744m
Section 2744m. 119.04 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V, and VII of ch. 115, ch. 121, and ss. 66.0235 (3) (c), 115.01 (1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343, 115.345, 115.361, 115.38 (2), 115.45, 118.001 to 118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07, 118.10, 118.12, 118.125 to 118.14, 118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163, 118.164, 118.18, 118.19, 118.20, 118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6) and (8), 118.245, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.30 to 118.43, 118.51, 118.52, 118.55, 120.12 (5) and (15) to (26) (27), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to (19), (26), (34), (35), and (37), 120.14, and 120.25 are applicable to a 1st class city school district and board.
16,2748i
Section 2748i. 119.23 (2) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
119.23 (2) (a) 3. The private school notified the state superintendent of its intent to participate in the program under this section by May February 1 of the previous school year. The notice shall specify the number of pupils participating in the program under this section for which the school has space.
16,2749m
Section 2749m. 119.23 (4) (bm) of the statutes is created to read:
119.23 (4) (bm) A pupil enrolled in a 4-year-old kindergarten program shall be counted under par. (b) as provided in s. 121.004 (7) (c) and (cm).
16,2752r
Section 2752r. 119.23 (4m) of the statutes is amended to read:
119.23 (4m) Beginning in the 1999-2000 school year, in In addition to the payment under sub. (4) the state superintendent shall pay to the parent or guardian of each pupil enrolled in a private school under this section, in the manner described in sub. (4) (c), an amount determined by multiplying 40% of the payment under sub. (4) by the quotient determined by dividing the summer choice average daily membership equivalent of the private school by the total number of pupils for whom payments are being made under sub. (4).
16,2760k
Section 2760k. 120.08 (1) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
120.08 (1) (a) Common school districts shall hold an annual meeting on the 4th Monday in July at 8 p.m. and union high school districts shall hold an annual meeting on the 3rd Monday in July at 8 p.m. unless the electors at one annual meeting determine to thereafter hold the annual meeting on a different date or hour, or authorize the school board to establish a different date or hour. No annual meeting may be held before May 15 or after September 30 October 31. The first school district meeting in a common or union high school district created under s. 117.08, 117.09, or 117.27 shall be considered an annual meeting.
16,2760m
Section 2760m. 120.12 (27) of the statutes is created to read:
120.12 (27) Minority contracting. If the school board adopts a policy that authorizes preferences or set-asides to minority businesses in the awarding of a public contract, as defined in s. 60.47 (1) (a), ensure that the policy requires that the minority business be certified by the department of commerce under s. 560.036 (2).
16,2760p
Section 2760p. 120.14 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
120.14 (3) The annual meeting may authorize and direct an audit of the school district accounts by a licensed certified public accountant
licensed or certified under ch. 442.
16,2760r
Section 2760r. 120.18 (1) (gm) of the statutes is amended to read:
120.18 (1) (gm) Payroll and related benefit costs for all school district employees in the previous school year. Costs for represented employees shall be based upon the costs of any collective bargaining agreements covering such employees for the previous school year. If, as of the time specified by the department for filing the report, the school district has not entered into a collective bargaining agreement for any portion of the previous school year with the recognized or certified representative of any of its employees and the school district and the representative have been required to submit final offers under s. 111.70 (4) (cm) 6., increased costs limited to the lower of the school district's offer or the representative's offer shall be reflected in the report. The school district shall amend the annual report to reflect any change in such costs as a result of any award or settlement under s. 111.70 (4) (cm) 6. between the date of filing the report and October 1. Any such amendment shall be concurred in by the licensed certified public accountant licensed or certified under ch. 442 certifying the school district audit.
16,2761
Section 2761. 121.004 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.004
(6) Net cost. The "net cost" of a fund means the gross cost of that fund minus all nonduplicative revenues and other financing sources of that fund except property taxes
and, general aid
, and aid received under s. 79.095 (4). In this subsection, "nonduplicative revenues" includes federal financial assistance under
20 USC 236 to
245, to the extent permitted under federal law and regulations.
16,2761d
Section 2761d. 121.004 (7) (c) 1. c. of the statutes is created to read:
121.004 (7) (c) 1. c. A pupil enrolled in a 4-year-old kindergarten program who is not a child with a disability, as defined in s. 115.76 (5), shall be counted as 0.3 pupil.
16,2761g
Section 2761g. 121.004 (7) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.004 (7) (cm) A Notwithstanding par. (c) (intro.) and 1. c., a pupil enrolled in a 4-year-old kindergarten program that provides the required number of hours of direct pupil instruction under s. 121.02 (1) (f) 2. shall be counted as 0.6 pupil if the program and that annually provides at least 87.5 additional hours of outreach activities shall be counted as 0.4 pupil if the child is not a child with a disability, as defined in s. 115.76 (5), and as 0.6 pupil if the pupil is a child with a disability.
16,2762
Section 2762. 121.007 of the statutes is amended to read:
121.007 Use of state aid; exemption from execution. All moneys paid to a school district under s. 20.255 (2) (ac), (bc), (cg), and (cr) and (q) shall be used by the school district solely for the purposes for which paid. Such moneys are exempt from execution, attachment, garnishment, or other process in favor of creditors, except as to claims for salaries or wages of teachers and other school employees and as to claims for school materials, supplies, fuel, and current repairs.
16,2762d
Section 2762d. 121.02 (1) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.02 (1) (a) 2. Ensure that all instructional staff of charter schools located in the school district hold a license or permit to teach issued by the department. The state superintendent shall promulgate rules defining "instructional staff" for purposes of this subdivision and s. 118.40 (2r) (d) 1.
16,2763m
Section 2763m. 121.02 (1) (o) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.02 (1) (o) Annually distribute the performance disclosure report under comply with the requirements of s. 115.38 (2). The school board may include additional information in the report under s. 115.38 (2).
16,2764c
Section 2764c. 121.05 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.05 (1) (a) 8. Pupils enrolled in the school operated by the Wisconsin School Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the school operated by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired under subch. III of ch. 115 for whom the school district is paying tuition under s. 115.53 (2) determined by multiplying the total number of periods in each day in which the pupils are enrolled in the local public school by the total number of days for which the pupils are enrolled in the local public school and dividing the product by 1,080.
16,2764L
Section 2764L. 121.06 (4) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.06 (4) For purposes of computing state aid under s. 121.08, equalized valuations calculated under sub. (1) and certified under sub. (2) shall include the full value of computers property that are is exempt under s. 70.11 (39) and (39m) as determined under s. 79.095 (3).
16,2764m
Section 2764m. 121.07 (6) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.07 (6) (a) (intro.) "Shared cost" is the sum of the net cost of the general fund and the net cost of the debt service fund, except that "shared cost" excludes any costs, including attorney fees, incurred by a school district as a result of its participation in a lawsuit commenced against the state, beginning with such costs incurred in the fiscal year in which the lawsuit is commenced, excludes any expenditures from a capital improvement fund created under s. 120.135, excludes any expenditures made as a result of the revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (L), and excludes the costs of transporting those transfer pupils for whom the school district operating under ch. 119 does not receive intradistrict transfer aid under s. 121.85 (6) as a result of s. 121.85 (6) (am). In this paragraph, "net cost of the debt service fund" includes all of the following amounts:
16,2765z
Section 2765z. 121.07 (6) (d) of the statutes is repealed and recreated to read:
121.07 (6) (d) The "secondary ceiling cost per member" in the 2001-02 school year and in each school year thereafter is an amount determined by dividing the state total shared cost in the previous school year by the state total membership in the previous school year and multiplying the result by 0.90.
16,2767f
Section 2767f. 121.07 (7) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.07 (7) (b) The "secondary guaranteed valuation per member" is an amount, rounded to the next lower dollar, that, after subtraction of payments under ss. 121.09 and 121.85 (6) (b) 2. and 3. and (c), fully distributes an amount equal to the amount remaining in the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) plus $75,000,000 in the 1997-98 school year and $100,000,000 in the 1998-99 $115,000,000 in the 2002-03 school year for payments under ss. 121.08, 121.105, 121.85 (6) (a) and (g) and 121.86.
16,2767h
Section 2767h. 121.08 (4) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.08 (4) (a) 2. Divide the sum under subd. 1. by the total amount of state aid that all school districts are eligible to be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac), calculated as if the reduction under par. (c)
(b) had not occurred.
16,2767j
Section 2767j. 121.08 (4) (a) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.08 (4) (a) 3. Multiply the amount of state aid that the school district is eligible to be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac), calculated as if the reduction under par. (c) (b) had not occurred, by the quotient under subd. 2.
16,2767k
Section 2767k. 121.08 (4) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.08 (4) (b) The amount of state aid that the school district operating under ch. 119 is eligible to be paid from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) shall also be reduced by 50% 45% of the amounts paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m) in the current school year.
16,2767L
Section 2767L. 121.08 (4) (c) of the statutes is repealed.
16,2767Lm
Section 2767Lm. 121.08 (4) (d) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.08 (4) (d) The state superintendent shall ensure that the total amount of aid reduction under pars. (a) to (c) and (b) lapses to the general fund.
16,2767m
Section 2767m. 121.085 of the statutes is created to read:
121.085 Interest on delayed payment. Beginning in 2003, annually on the 3rd Monday in June, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (am), the department shall pay to each school district an amount equal to the interest that the school district would have earned on its portion of the delayed school aid payment under s. 121.15 (1m) (a) 4. if the school aid payment had been made on the 3rd Monday in June instead of on the 4th Monday in July. Interest shall be calculated using the annualized rate of return on investments in the state investment fund for April.
16,2768
Section 2768. 121.09 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.09 (1) If, on or after July 1, 1980, the tax appeals commission or a court makes a final redetermination on the assessment of property subject to taxation under s. 70.995 that is lower than the previous assessment, or if, on or after January 1, 1982, the state board of assessors makes a final redetermination on the assessment of property subject to taxation under s. 70.995 that is lower than the previous assessment, the school board of the school district in which the property is located may, within 4 years after the date of the determination, decision, or judgment, file the determination of the state board of assessors, the decision of the tax appeals commission, or the judgment of the court with the state superintendent, requesting an adjustment in state aid to the school district. If the state superintendent determines that the determination, decision, or judgment is final and that it has been filed within the 4-year period, the state shall pay to the school district in the subsequent fiscal year, from the appropriations appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) and (q), an amount equal to the difference between the state aid computed under s. 121.08 for the school year commencing after the year subject to the valuation recertification, using the school district's equalized valuation as originally certified, and the state aid computed under s. 121.08 for that school year using the school district's equalized valuation as recertified under s. 70.57 (2).
16,2769
Section 2769. 121.105 (2) (a) 1. of the statutes is renumbered 121.105 (2) (am) and amended to read:
121.105 (2) (am) If a school district would receive less in state aid in the current year before any adjustment is made under s. 121.15 (4) (b) than an amount equal to 85% of the sum of the state aid that it received in the previous school year and the adjustment, if any, made under s. 121.15 (4) (b) in the current school year, its state aid for the current school year shall be increased to an amount equal to 85% of the state aid received in the previous school year.
16,2770
Section 2770. 121.105 (2) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
16,2771
Section 2771. 121.105 (2) (a) 3. of the statutes is repealed.
16,2772
Section 2772. 121.105 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.105 (3) In the school year in which a school district consolidation takes effect under s. 117.08 or 117.09 and in each of the subsequent 4 school years, the consolidated school district's state aid shall be an amount that is not less than the aggregate state aid received by the consolidating school districts in the school year prior to the school year in which the consolidation takes effect. The additional state aid shall be paid from the appropriations appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac) and (q).
16,2776
Section 2776. 121.15 (1m) (a) 1. of the statutes is repealed.
16,2777
Section 2777. 121.15 (1m) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.
16,2777g
Section 2777g. 121.15 (1m) (a) 4. of the statutes is created to read:
121.15 (1m) (a) 4. Beginning in the 2002-03 school year, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (ac), annually the state shall pay to school districts an amount determined as follows on the 4th Monday in July of the following school year:
a. Subtract the amount transferred to the tax relief fund under s. 16. 518 (4) from the amount calculated by the secretary of administration under s. 16.518 (4).
b. Subtract the remainder under subd. 4. a. from $115,000,000.
16,2777r
Section 2777r. 121.15 (1m) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
121.15 (1m) (b) The percentages under subs. (1) (a) and (1g) (a) shall be reduced proportionally to reflect the payments made under par. (a) 3. The percentage for June under subs. (1) (a) and (1g) (a) shall also be reduced to reflect the payment made under par. (a) 4. School districts shall treat the payments made in July under par. (a) as if they had been received in the previous school year.
16,2779
Section 2779. 121.15 (3m) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.15 (3m) (a) 1. "Partial school revenues" means the sum of state school aids, other than the amounts appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (bi)
(am) and (cv)
,; property taxes levied for school districts
; and aid paid to school districts under s. 79.095 (4)
; less the amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (L) , less the amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 2. due to a school board's increasing the services that it provides by adding responsibility for providing a service transferred to it from another school board, less the amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (a) 3. and, less the amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (j), less the amount of any revenue limit increase under s. 121.91 (4) (h), less the amount of any property taxes levied for the purpose of s. 120.13 (19), and less an amount equal to 45% of the amount estimated to be paid under s. 119.23 (4) and (4m).
16,2779m
Section 2779m. 121.15 (3m) (a) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
121.15 (3m) (a) 2. "State school aids" means those aids appropriated under s. 20.255 (1) (b) and (2), other than s. 20.255 (2)
(am), (fm), (fu), (k),
(kn), and (m), and under ss. 20.275 (1) (d), (es), (et) and (f) and 20.285 (1) (ee), (r) and (rc) and those aids appropriated under s. 20.275 (1) (s) that are used to provide grants or educational telecommunications access to school districts under s. 44.73.
16,2779s
Section 2779s. 121.54 (3) of the statutes is amended to read:
