AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
Current law allows a school board to enter into a five-year renewable achievement guarantee (SAGE) contract with DPI to reduce class size and improve academic achievement in grades kindergarten to three in exchange for receiving $2,000 for each low-income pupil enrolled in grades eligible for SAGE funding in the school district. The most recent set of SAGE contracts expires at the end of the 2005-06 school year.
This bill authorizes another set of SAGE contracts, starting in the 2006-07 school year, and increases the $2,000 per pupil payment to $2,250 in the 2005-06 fiscal year and $2,500 in the 2006-07 fiscal year for these new contracts and for renewals of existing contracts.
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. 118.43 (2) (bw) of the statutes is created to read:
118.43 (2) (bw) In the 2006-07 school year, the school board of an eligible school district may enter into a 5-year achievement guarantee contract with the department on behalf of one or more schools in the school district if all of the following apply:
1. The school board is not receiving a grant under the preschool to grade 5 program on behalf of any of the schools under s. 115.45.
2. The school board, if eligible to participate in the program under this section in the 1996-97 and 1998-99 school years, had participated in the program during either school year.
3. None of the schools is a beneficiary of a contract under this section.
SECTION 2. 118.43 (2) (e) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
118.43 (2) (e) 1. If the school board of an eligible school district does not enter into an achievement guarantee contract with the department, a school board that has entered into such a contract, other than the school board of the school district operating under ch. 119, may apply to the department to enter into such a contract on behalf of one or more schools that meet the requirements under par. (b), (bg) or, (br), or (bw).
SECTION 3. 118.43 (2) (g) of the statutes is amended to read:
118.43 (2) (g) The department may renew an achievement guarantee contract under pars. (b), (bg), and (br), and (bw) 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.
SECTION 4. 118.43 (3) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
118.43 (3) CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS. (intro.) Except as provided in pars. (am) and, (ar), and (aw), an achievement guarantee contract shall require the school board to do all of the following in each participating school:
SECTION 5. 118.43 (3) (aw) of the statutes is created to read:
118.43 (3) (aw) Class size; additional contracts. For contracts that begin in the 2006-07 school year, reduce each class size to 15 in the following manner:
1. In the 2006-07 school year, in at least grades kindergarten and one.
2. In the 2007-08 school year, in at least grades kindergarten to 2.
3. In the 2008-09 to 2009-10 school years, in at least grades kindergarten to 3.
SECTION 6. 118.43 (6) (b) 9. of the statutes is created to read:
118.43 (6) (b) 9. In the 2005-06 school year, $2,250 multiplied by the number of low-income pupils enrolled in grades eligible for funding in each school in the school district covered by renewals of contracts under sub. (2) (g).
SECTION 7. 118.43 (6) (b) 10. of the statutes is created to read:
118.43 (6) (b) 10. In the 2006-07 school year, $2,500 multiplied by the number of low-income pupils enrolled in grades eligible for funding in each school in the school district covered 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) (aw) an amount equal to $2,500 multiplied by the number of low-income pupils enrolled in grades eligible for funding in each school in the school district covered by contract under sub. (3) (aw). In making these payments, the department shall give priority to schools that have the highest percentage of low-income pupil enrollment and shall ensure that it fully distributes the amount appropriated.
SECTION 8. 118.43 (6) (c) of the statutes is amended to read:
118.43 (6) (c) The amount paid to a school district in any school year under par. (b) may not exceed an amount equal to $2,000 $2,500 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 this section.
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LRB-0421LRB-0421/3
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Bergum, BB0145 - Repeal of state-owned housing appropriation
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Primary and secondary education
This bill repeals an appropriation administered by DPI for the maintenance of state-owned housing.
For further information see the state 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 (1) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
20.255 (1) (b) General program operations; Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The amounts in the schedule for the operation and maintenance of the facilities of the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired, including the matching of federal funds, but not including expenses financed under par. (js).
SECTION 2. 20.255 (1) (js) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 9437. Effective dates; public instruction.
(1) APPROPRIATION REPEAL. The treatment of section 20.255 (1) (js) of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 2006.
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LRB-0422LRB-0422/1
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Rogers, BB0151 - SAGE appropriation consolidation
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
Current law allows a school district to enter into an achievement guarantee (SAGE) contract with DPI under which the school district agrees to reduce class size and improve academic achievement in grades kindergarten to three in exchange for receiving state aid. This bill consolidates the two existing SAGE appropriations into one appropriation.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 20.255 (2) (cv) of the statutes is repealed.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 2. 118.43 (6) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
118.43 (6) (a) In this subsection, "amount appropriated" means the amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (cu) in any fiscal year less $250,000, plus the amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (cv).
SECTION 3. 118.43 (6) (b) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
118.43 (6) (b) (intro.) From the appropriations appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (cu) and (cv), subject to par. (c), the department shall pay to each school district that has entered into a contract with the department under this section an amount determined as follows:
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LRB-0423LRB-0423/3
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Rogers, BB0153 - High-cost special education
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
AN ACT ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Primary and secondary education
Under current law, a school board, board of control of a cooperative educational service agency, county children with disabilities education board, or an independent charter school established by the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Milwaukee Area Technical College, and the city of Milwaukee is eligible to receive state aid for certain special education costs, such as salaries for special education personnel and transporting children with disabilities. Other costs, such as providing nursing care or assistive technology for children with disabilities, are not reimbursable under state or federal law. Beginning in the 2006-07 school year, this bill provides state aid for these costs equal to 90 percent of the amount by which these costs exceeded $30,000 per child in the previous year.
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) (bd) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (bd) Additional special education aid. The amounts in the schedule for aid under s. 115.881.
****NOTE: This SECTION involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
SECTION 2. 115.881 of the statutes is created to read:
115.881 Additional special education aid. (1) A school board, board of control of a cooperative educational service agency, county children with disabilities education board, or operator of a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r) may apply to the department for aid under this section if the applicant incurred, in the previous school year, more than $30,000 of nonadministrative costs for providing special education and related services to a child and those costs were not eligible for reimbursement under s. 115.88, 115.93, or 118.255, 20 USC 1400 et seq., or federal medicaid.
(2) For each child whose costs exceeded $30,000 under sub. (1), the department shall, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (bd), pay an eligible applicant in the current school year an amount equal to 0.90 multiplied by that portion of the cost under sub. (1) that exceeded $30,000.
(3) If the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (bd) is insufficient to pay the full amount of costs under sub. (2), the department shall prorate payments among eligible applicants.
SECTION 9437. Effective dates; public instruction.
(1) HIGH-COST SPECIAL EDUCATION. The creation of sections 20.255 (2) (bd) and 115.881 of the statutes takes effect on July 1, 2006.
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LRB-0425LRB-0425/4
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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Rogers, BB0150 - Four-year-old kindergarten
For 2005-07 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
2005 BILL
