LRB-1826/P3
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2017 - 2018 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Hynek, BB0335 - MPS summer school grant program
For 2017-2019 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
education
Primary and secondary education
This bill requires the school board of a first class city school district (currently, only the school district operating in the city of Milwaukee, Milwaukee Public Schools) to develop and implement a grant program to award grants to public schools, except independent charter schools, located in the first class city for the purpose of developing, redesigning, or implementing a summer school program. Additionally, the bill requires DPI to annually distribute funding to the MPS board to pay awards under the grant program, as requested by the MPS board.
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) (dj) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (dj) Summer school grant program; 1st class city school district. The amounts in the schedule for payments to the school board of a 1st class city school district under s. 119.16 (16) (b).
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 119.16 (16) of the statutes is created to read:
119.16 (16) Summer school grants. (a) The board shall develop and establish a grant program under which the board annually awards grants to public schools, except charter schools authorized under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x), located in the city to do any of the following to increase pupil attendance, improve academic achievement, or expose pupils to innovative learning activities:
1. Develop a summer school program.
2. Redesign a summer school program.
3. Implement a summer school program.
(b) In each school year, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (dj), the state superintendent shall distribute to the board the total amount requested by the board to pay grants to schools under par. (a) in that school year. The board may not request more than the amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (2) (dj) in any school year.
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