LRB-0928/P1
EAW:klm
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0087 - Student teacher stipend payments
For 2023-2025 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Education
Primary and secondary education
Student teacher stipends
The bill provides stipends, through DPI, to student teachers who are completing a teacher preparatory program that is approved by the superintendent of public instruction. The stipends are $2,500 per student teacher per semester, and begin in the 2024-25 school year.
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 (3) (cs) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (3) (cs) Student teacher stipends. A sum sufficient for payments to student teachers under s. 115.421.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2
. 115.421 of the statutes is created to read:
115.421 Student teacher stipends. From the appropriation account under s. 20.255 (3) (cs), beginning in the 2024-25 school year, the department shall provide payments, in the amount of $2,500 per individual per semester, to an individual who is completing student teaching as part of a teacher preparatory program approved by the state superintendent under s. 115.28 (7) (a). The department may promulgate rules to implement this section.
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