Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Ninety-Ninth Regular Session
The Chief Clerk makes the following entries under the above date.
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Senate amendment 1 to Senate Bill 215 offered by Senator Holperin.
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Read and referred:
Senate Joint Resolution 44
Relating to: the life and military service of Wisconsin Army National Guard Master Sergeant Brian K. Naseman of Racine.
By
Senator
Lehman
; cosponsored by Representatives Vos, Mason and Turner.
To committee on Senate Organization.
Read first time and referred:
Senate Bill 274
Relating to: requiring landlords to change locks.
By
Senators
Holperin, Hansen, Kreitlow, Schultz and Taylor; cosponsored by Representatives Dexter, Parisi, Berceau, Bernard Schaber, Clark, Grigsby, Hebl, Milroy, A. Ott, Pasch, Pocan, Roys, Seidel, Shilling, Smith, Suder, A. Williams and Wood.
To committee on Judiciary, Corrections, Insurance, Campaign Finance Reform, and Housing.
Senate Bill 275
Relating to: employment discrimination based on credit history.
By
Senators
Taylor and Coggs; cosponsored by Representatives Hixson, Berceau, Grigsby, Toles, Hintz, Zepnick, Pope-Roberts, Schneider, Parisi, Pasch, A. Williams, Turner, Fields and Hilgenberg.
To committee on Labor, Elections and Urban Affairs.
Senate Bill 276
Relating to: requiring governmental bodies of school districts and certain political subdivisions to post meeting notices and minutes on their Web sites.
By
Senators
Kreitlow, Plale, Taylor and Hansen; cosponsored by Representatives Roys, Smith, Kerkman, Mason, Berceau, Pope-Roberts, Danou, Spanbauer and Bies.
To committee on Rural Issues, Biofuels, and Information Technology.
Senate Bill 277
Relating to: costs eligible for reimbursement under the Local Roads Improvement Program administered by the Department of Transportation.
By
Senators
Kreitlow and Lehman; cosponsored by Representatives Smith, Jorgensen, Berceau, Turner, Petrowski, Clark, Brooks, Vruwink and Gottlieb.
To committee on Transportation, Tourism, Forestry, and Natural Resources.
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The committee on Veterans and Military Affairs, Biotechnology, and Financial Institutions reports and recommends:
Senate Bill 195
Relating to: adding a member to the council on veterans programs.
Passage.
Ayes, 5 - Senators
Sullivan, Coggs, Carpenter, Leibham and Kanavas.
Noes, 0 - None.
Jim Sullivan
Chairperson
Pursuant to Senate Rule 17 (5), Representative Bernard Schaber added as a cosponsor of
Senate Bill
221
.
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State of Wisconsin
Legislative Audit Bureau
August 26, 2009
The Honorable, The Legislature:
As required by
2005 Wisconsin Act 125, we have reviewed the pupil test score data provided to us by the School Choice Demonstration Project, which is a group of privately funded education researchers who are studying the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program. The Choice program provides publicly funded private school tuition for low-income children in Milwaukee.
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Project researchers are conducting a five-year longitudinal study of Choice and Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) pupils first selected in the 2006-07 school year. The representative sample includes 2,727 Choice pupils who were in the third through ninth grades in fall 2006 and a comparable group of 2,727 MPS pupils who were in the third through ninth grades in fall 2006. The researchers are tracking changes in Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination scores and determining how participation in the Choice program affects changes in academic achievement.
We reviewed the project's data for the 2007-08 school year, which is the second year the researchers arranged for the Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination to be administered to Choice pupils. We analyzed and generally confirmed the test score averages and related analyses that they reported in March 2009. However, as we discussed in our September 2008 report, we are unable to review average pupil test scores at individual Choice schools because the project, citing confidentiality concerns, has not provided us with this type of information. As a result, we cannot provide legislators and other policymakers with information about academic performance specific to each of the 120 Choice schools that operated in the 2007-08 school year.
2009 Wisconsin Act 28 made several changes to the testing requirements for Choice schools, and Wisconsin Knowledge and Concepts Examination scores for each school will be available to the public after the 2010-11 school year.
We appreciate the courtesy and cooperation extended to us by project researchers as we conducted this review.
Sincerely,
janice mueller
State Auditor
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Relating to hunting, trapping and wildlife rehabilitation.
