LRB-0929/P2
EAW:klm&skw
2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0086 - Wisconsin improvement program 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
Teacher improvement program stipends
Under current law, DPI operates a teacher improvement program to provide prospective teachers with one-semester internships under the supervision of licensed teachers, in-service activities, and professional staff development research projects.
Under the bill, DPI provides stipends to individuals who are participating in the teacher improvement program. The stipends are $9,600 per individual 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) (ci) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (3) (ci) Teacher improvement program stipends. A sum sufficient for payments to individuals under s. 115.41 (2).
****Note: This Section
involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section
2. 115.41 of the statutes is renumbered 115.41 (1).
Section
3. 115.41 (2) of the statutes is created to read:
115.41 (2) From the appropriation account under s. 20.255 (3) (ci), beginning in the 2024-25 school year, the department shall provide payments, in the amount of $9,600 per individual per semester, to prospective teachers who are participating in the program under sub. (1). The department may promulgate rules to implement this subsection.
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