Wisconsin Legislature: Public Instruction, Department of

Stop the Bleed campaign recognized and March 31, 2018 established as Wisconsin Trauma Awareness Day - SJR109

Testing for lead in drinking water: child care center license and child care provider certification requirements - AB298

Testing for lead in drinking water: child care center license and child care provider certification requirements - SB526

Windows replaced in historic property to remediate a lead hazard: historic rehabilitation tax credit - AB951

Windows replaced in historic property to remediate a lead hazard: historic rehabilitation tax credit - SB854

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Achievement Gap Reduction (AGR) program repealed and SAGE reinstated and expanded; parental choice programs (Milwaukee, Racine, and statewide), and the Special Needs Scholarship Program phased out - AB452

Addressing mental health issues in schools: DPI to provide training to school district and independent charter school personnel - Jr7 AB11

Addressing mental health issues in schools: DPI to provide training to school district and independent charter school personnel - Jr7 SB11

Annual accountability reports: DPI to include additional information about high school pupils [Sec. 1472] - AB64

Annual accountability reports: DPI to include additional information about high school pupils [Sec. 1472] - SB30

Bilingual-bicultural education programs: additional funding to DPI - AB762

Bullying prevention: DPI grants to nonprofit organization for training and online curriculum [Sec. 217, 1464] - AB64

Bullying prevention: DPI grants to nonprofit organization for training and online curriculum [Sec. 217, 1464] - SB30

Center for Suicide Awareness, Inc.: DPI to award grants re text-based suicide prevention service - AB938

Center for Suicide Awareness, Inc.: DPI to award grants re text-based suicide prevention service - SB787

Character education professional development for teachers and school administrators: DPI grants for - AB419

Character education professional development for teachers and school administrators: DPI grants for - SB329

Child sexual abuse prevention policy and instructional program for kindergarten through sixth grade: DPI to develop and school boards required to adopt DPI program or their own policy and program - AB535

Children with disabilities enrolled in private schools: DPI to designate an ombudsman to monitor federal special education laws and identify private school fiscal agent to receive federal funding; federal waiver provision [Sec. 1484, 1486; original bill only] - AB64

Chronic absenteeism in schools and public benefits: DCF, DPI, DHS, and DWD to collaborate on a report [Sec. 9152 (1)] - AB64

Chronic absenteeism in schools and public benefits: DCF, DPI, DHS, and DWD to collaborate on a report [Sec. 9152 (1)] - SB30

Community and school mental health collaboration grants: DPI to develop and administer [Sec. 212, 1469; original bill only] - AB64

Community and school mental health collaboration grants: DPI to develop and administer [Sec. 212, 1469] - SB30

Community school start-up grant program: DPI directed to create; reports to DPI required - SB282

Dates changed for publication of school and school district accountability reports and eligibility to be placed in the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program - AB569

Dates changed for publication of school and school district accountability reports and eligibility to be placed in the Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program - SB494

DLT authorized to collect and maintain certain public library data; rural public libraries serving certain sized municipalities are eligible to receive TEACH grants - AB572

DLT authorized to collect and maintain certain public library data; rural public libraries serving certain sized municipalities are eligible to receive TEACH grants - SB491

DPI biennial budget request revised re public library system aid [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec.727p] - AB64

DPI cannot require certain private schools participating in a parental choice program to submit an annual operating budget [Sec. 1592, 1594, 1612, 1614; original bill only] - AB64

DPI cannot require certain private schools participating in a parental choice program to submit an annual operating budget [Sec. 1592, 1594, 1612, 1614] - SB30

DPI model school policy on bullying by pupils: notification of parents or guardians of all pupils involved required within 48 hours of incident being reported - AB1031

DPI model school policy on bullying by pupils: notification of parents or guardians of all pupils involved required within 48 hours of incident being reported - Mr8 AB4

DPI reports: expired and outdated requirements eliminated (remedial legislation) - AB13

DPI to make payments to schools that increase spending on school counselors, social workers, psychologists, and nurses - AB1054

Driver education courses: DPI to reimburse school districts, independent charter schools, and private schools participating in parental choice programs; conditions set - AB1036

Dual enrollment programs in high schools: Office of Educational Opportunity in UW System to award grants to high school teachers in meeting minimal qualifications; sunset provision [S.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, HEAB to award grants, private, nonprofit colleges added; S.Amdt.1: DPI issuance of lifetime licenses revised] - SB711

Educational savings account for gifted and talented pupils created, criteria specified; DPI scholarships provision; LAB and JCF duties, report required - AB830

Educational savings account for gifted and talented pupils created, criteria specified; DPI scholarships provision; LAB and JCF duties, report required - SB725

Electric energy derived from renewable resources: appropriation created for DOA, DOC, DHS, DPI, DVA, and the UW System [Sec. 205, 206, 221, 222, 365, 366, 375, 376, 413, 414, 447, 448] - SB30

Electric energy derived from renewable resources: appropriation created for DOA, DOC, DHS, DPI, DVA, and the UW System [Sec. 205, 206, 221, 222, 365, 366, 375, 376, 413, 414, 447, 448] - AB64

Electronic smoking device: DPI to develop model policy regulating use of on school property and school boards required to adopt a policy; definition provision - AB159

Employment First initiative established for certain state agencies re competitive integrated employment for persons with disabilities, report required - AB625

Employment First initiative established for certain state agencies re competitive integrated employment for persons with disabilities, report required - SB514

Faculty at UW System, technical colleges, and private colleges or universities may teach at a public high school without a DPI issued license under certain conditions [Sec. 1507, 1508; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, background check provision added, 1512p] - AB64

Faculty at UW System, technical colleges, and private colleges or universities may teach at a public high school without a DPI issued license under certain conditions [Sec. 1507, 1508] - SB30

Four-year-old kindergarten: all school boards to make available to eligible pupils; exception and state aid provisions - AB709

Gifted and talented grants: DPI to award to all school districts [Sec. 1529] - AB64

Gifted and talented grants: DPI to award to all school districts [Sec. 1529] - SB30

Human resources and payrolls services: DOA to administer for all executive branch agencies and independent agencies except DPI, DOJ, UW Board of Regents, and TCS Board; general fund lapse provision [Sec. 73, 9101 (9), 9201 (1), 9401 (4); A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, exceptions expanded to include DETF, DMA, SWIB, and Public Defender Board, adds onsite management for certain agencies, reports required] - AB64

Information technology education for public school pupils, technical college students, and public library patrons; DPI to award grant to an entity that meets specified criteria; DWD career and technical education grant provision [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 215m, 1407g, i, 1482p] - AB64

Initial teacher license: alternative preparation programs provisions, DPI duties [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1461p, 1511p, 1524g] - AB64

Interagency Council on Homelessness created; appropriation and report provisions - SB207

Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program offered in high school grades: DPI to grant licenses to individuals to provide instruction for [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1461p, 1511p, 1519m] - AB64

Knowledge and concepts exam practice exam or sample items: DPI to make available upon request; repeal of administrative code [Admin.Code PI 28] - AB488

Knowledge and concepts exam practice exam or sample items: DPI to make available upon request; repeal of administrative code [Admin.Code PI 28] - SB536

Lifetime licenses issued by DPI: successful completion of semesters of teaching and definition of ``regularly employed in education” clarified by rule - SB825

Long-term capital improvement trust fund: DPI required to provide matching funds for deposits made by school boards - AB279

Long-term capital improvement trust fund: DPI required to provide matching funds for deposits made by school boards - SB192

Mental health training program for school district and independent charter school personnel: funding increased - AB1056

Mental health training program for school district and independent charter school personnel [Sec. 207, 1468; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, 1467d-t, deletes 207, 1468] - AB64

Mental health training program for school district and independent charter school personnel [Sec. 207, 1468] - SB30

MPCP, Racine Parental Choice Program, and statewide parental choice program changes [Sec. 1577-1580, 1582, 1584-1591, 1595-1598, 1602, 1604-1611, 1615-1618; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, deletes 1580, 1584-1591, 1595-1598, 1602, 1604-1611, 1615-1618] - AB64

MPCP, Racine Parental Choice Program, and statewide parental choice program changes [Sec. 1577-1580, 1582, 1584-1591, 1595-1598, 1602, 1604-1611, 1615-1618] - SB30

MPCP, Racine Parental Choice Program, statewide parental choice program, and Special Needs Scholarship Program changes - AB383

MPCP, Racine Parental Choice Program, statewide parental choice program, and Special Needs Scholarship Program changes [S.Amdt.3: financial audit provisions modified] - SB293

MPS summer school grant program [Sec. 215, 1601; A.Sub.Amdt.1: further revisions, grants opened up to any school district meeting certain criteria and awarded on a competitive basis, 1482j, deletes 1601] - AB64

MPS summer school grant program [Sec. 215, 1601] - SB30

Nutrition education standards modified re knowledge of nutritive value of food, nutritious diet in promoting health, and nutrition education component in health education - AB215

Nutrition education standards modified re knowledge of nutritive value of food, nutritious diet in promoting health, and nutrition education component in health education [S.Amdt.1: nutrition education component provision removed] - SB159

Online courses in public schools: reciprocity for teachers licensed in another state; DPI duties [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1507m, 1532x, 1633g, i] - AB64

Open enrollment program expired provision eliminated; 2017 WisAct 107 tuberculosis screening requirement correction; expired or outdated DPI reporting requirements eliminated (remedial legislation) [S.Sub.Amdt.2: further revisions, Office of School Safety created in DOJ, school safety plan provisions including on-site assessment by law enforcement and annual drills, mandatory reporting of threats of violence, DOJ grants for school safety, reports and penalty provisions] - AB843

Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program creation in an eligible unified school district provisions, Superintendent of Public Instruction duties, report required, and village board procedures; DPI to contract for a reorganization of low performing school district study [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 207f, g, 996w, 1463f, h, 1504k-r, w-y, 9135 (4w), 9435 (1x)] - AB64

Per pupil aid [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 1481m] - AB64

Per pupil aid increases; group health plan provision [Sec. 1482, 9135 (1)-(3); original bill only] - AB64

Per pupil aid increases; group health plan provision [Sec. 1482, 9135 (1)-(3)] - SB30

Personal electronic computing devices grant program created for schools to provide devices for pupil use, sunset provision [A.Sub.Amdt.1: Sec. 208e, 1482f] - AB64

Public school financing law changes re calculation of general school aids, counting low-income pupils, school aid factors, per pupil adjustment to revenue limits, high-poverty aid, hold harmless aid, revenue ceiling, and delay in school aid payments; first dollar and school levy property tax credits eliminated; DPI, DOA, JCF, and LFB duties - AB816

Pupil data inventory: Superintendent of Public Instruction to create, maintain, and post to DPI website - AB71

Pupil transportation aids to school districts and independent charter schools [Sec. 1638-1640, 9335 (1)] - AB64

Pupil transportation aids to school districts and independent charter schools [Sec. 1638-1640, 9335 (1)] - SB30

Recovery charter school: pilot program and director of Office of Educational Opportunity in the UW System authorized to contract for operation of, conditions specified; high school graduation and insurance coverage requirements; DHS, DPI, and Superintendent of Public Instruction duties [A.Amdt.1: state aid and report of the director revisions; A.Amdt.4: insurer notification provision] - Jr7 AB6