LRB-0839/P1
TKK:jld:md
2011 - 2012 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hynek, BB0185 - MPCP - replace requirement that MPCP schools administer WKCE with nationally normed standardized test
For 2011-13 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
Under current law, private schools participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program (MPCP) must annually administer examinations approved by the state superintendent to pupils attending the school under the program and enrolled in grades four, eight, and ten. The private school must also administer examinations in reading and mathematics required under the federal No Child Left Behind Act to pupils enrolled in grades three to eight and grade ten. This bill replaces the current examination requirements and requires, instead, that private schools participating in the MPCP annually administer a nationally normed standardized test in reading, mathematics, and science to pupils attending the school under the program and enrolled in grades four, eight, and ten.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section
1. 119.23 (7) (e) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:
119.23 (7) (e) 1. In the 2009-10 school year Annually, each private school participating in the program under this section shall administer a nationally normed standardized test in reading, mathematics, and science to pupils attending the school under the program in the 4th, 8th, and 10th grades. Beginning in the 2010-11 school year and annually thereafter, each private school participating in the program under this section shall administer the examinations required under s. 118.30 (1s) to pupils attending the school under the program. The private school may administer additional standardized tests to such pupils. Beginning in 2006 and annually thereafter until 2011, the private school shall provide the scores of all standardized tests and examinations that it administers under this subdivision to the School Choice Demonstration Project.
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