AB972: Bill Text

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1995 - 1996 LEGISLATURE

1995 Assembly BILL 972

February 29, 1996 - Introduced by Representatives Hahn, Owens, Musser, Goetsch and Seratti. Referred to Committee on Education.

AB972,1,7 An Act to repeal 115.01 (10) (a) 1., 115.01 (10) (a) 2., 115.01 (10) (b), 121.004 (7) (c) 1. a., 121.004 (7) (c) 2. and 121.02 (1) (f) 1.; to renumber and amend 115.01 (10) (a) (intro.), 121.006 (2) (a) and 121.02 (1) (f) 2.; to consolidate, renumber and amend 121.004 (7) (c) 1. (intro.) and b.; to amend 119.71 (1), 120.12 (15), 121.004 (7) (a), 121.004 (7) (cm), 121.05 (1) (a) 8. and 121.23 (2) (intro.); and to create 121.004 (5m) and 121.006 (2) (a) 2. of the statutes; relating to: the num ber of school days required each school term.

Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, school is required to be held for at least 180 days during the school term (the time beginning with the first school day and ending with the last school day that the schools are in operation for the attendance of pupils in a school year). In addition, each school board must schedule at least 437 hours of direct pupil instruction in kindergarten, at least 1,050 hours of direct pupil instruction in grades 1 to 6 and at least 1,137 hours of direct pupil instruction in grades 7 to 12. This bill requires that school be held for these minimum required hours of instruction and eliminates the requirement that school be held at least 180 days.

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:

AB972, s. 1 Section 1. 115.01 (10) (a) (intro.) of the statutes is renumbered 115.01 (10) and amended to read:

AB972,2,4 115.01 (10) School day. School days are days on which school is actually taught and the following days on which school is not taught:.

AB972, s. 2 Section 2. 115.01 (10) (a) 1. of the statutes is repealed.

AB972, s. 3 Section 3. 115.01 (10) (a) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

AB972, s. 4 Section 4. 115.01 (10) (b) of the statutes is repealed.

AB972, s. 5 Section 5. 119.71 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB972,2,11 119.71 (1) In this section, "full-day" has the meaning given in s. 121.004 (7) (c) 2. means the length of the school day for pupils in the first grade of the school district operating the 5-year-old kindergarten program.

AB972, s. 6 Section 6. 120.12 (15) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB972,2,19 120.12 (15) School hours. Establish rules scheduling the hours of a normal school day. The school board may differentiate between the various elementary and high school grades in scheduling the school day. The equivalent of 180 such days, as defined in s. 115.01 (10), shall be held during the school term. This subsection shall not be construed to eliminate a school district's duty to bargain with the employe's collective bargaining representative over any calendaring proposal which is primari ly related to wages, hours and conditions of employment.

AB972, s. 7 Section 7. 121.004 (5m) of the statutes is created to read:

AB972,2,23 121.004 (5m) Minimum required hours of instruction. "Minimum required hours of instruction" means the number of hours of direct pupil instruction required for the grade in which a pupil is enrolled as specified under s. 121.02 (1) (f).

AB972, s. 8 Section 8. 121.004 (7) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB972,3,8 121.004 (7) (a) "Pupils enrolled" is the total number of pupils, as expressed by official enrollments, in all schools of the school district. A pupil shall be counted as the number obtained by dividing the total number of hours of instruction in which the pupil is enrolled during the school term by the minimum required hours of instruction, except as provided in pars. (b) to (d). If such total contains a fraction, it shall be expressed as the nearest whole number. The same method shall be used in computing the number of pupils enrolled for resident pupils, nonresident pupils or both.

AB972, s. 9 Section 9. 121.004 (7) (c) 1. (intro.) and b. of the statutes are consolidated, re numbered 121.004 (7) (c) and amended to read:

AB972,3,21 121.004 (7) (c) A pupil enrolled in kindergarten may be counted only if the pupil attains the age permitted under s. 115.28 (8) or required under s. 118.14 for kinder garten admission. A kindergarten pupil shall be counted as one-half pupil except that: b. A a pupil enrolled in a 5-year-old kindergarten program requiring full-day attendance for less than 5 days a week for an entire school year attendance for more than 525 hours in a school term shall be counted as the result obtained by multiply ing the number of hours in each day in which the pupil is enrolled by the total number of days for which the pupil is enrolled, and dividing the result by the product of the number of hours of attendance per day required of first grade pupils in the school dis trict multiplied by 180 dividing the number of hours of direct pupil instruction sched uled for the pupil during the school term by 1,050.

AB972, s. 10 Section 10. 121.004 (7) (c) 1. a. of the statutes is repealed.

AB972, s. 11 Section 11. 121.004 (7) (c) 2. of the statutes is repealed.

AB972, s. 12 Section 12. 121.004 (7) (cm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB972,4,4 121.004 (7) (cm) A pupil enrolled in a 4-year-old kindergarten program that provides the required number of hours of direct pupil instruction under s. 121.02 (1) (f) 2. shall be counted as 0.6 pupil if the program annually provides at least 87.5 addi tional hours of outreach activities.

AB972, s. 13 Section 13. 121.006 (2) (a) of the statutes is renumbered 121.006 (2) (a) (intro.) and amended to read:

AB972,4,8 121.006 (2) (a) (intro.) Hold school for at least 180 days each year the minimum required hours of instruction, less any days of the following:

AB972,4,11 1. Hours during which the department determines that school is not held or educational standards are not maintained as the result of a strike by school district employes, the days to be computed in accordance with s. 115.01 (10).

AB972, s. 14 Section 14. 121.006 (2) (a) 2. of the statutes is created to read:

AB972,4,14 121.006 (2) (a) 2. Hours during which school is closed by order of a local health officer, as defined in s. 250.01 (5).

AB972, s. 15 Section 15. 121.02 (1) (f) 1. of the statutes is repealed.

AB972, s. 16 Section 16. 121.02 (1) (f) 2. of the statutes is renumbered 121.02 (1) (f) and amended to read:

AB972,4,24 121.02 (1) (f) Annually, schedule at least 437 hours of direct pupil instruction in kindergarten, at least 1,050 hours of direct pupil instruction in grades 1 to 6 and at least 1,137 hours of direct pupil instruction in grades 7 to 12. Scheduled hours under this subdivision paragraph include recess and time for pupils to transfer be tween classes but do not include the lunch period. A school board operating a 4-year- old kindergarten program may use up to 87.5 of the scheduled hours for outreach ac tivities.

AB972, s. 17 Section 17. 121.05 (1) (a) 8. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB972,5,8 121.05 (1) (a) 8. Pupils enrolled in a residential school operated by the state under subch. III of ch. 115 for whom the school district is paying tuition under s. 115.53 (2) determined by multiplying the total number of periods in each day in which the pupils are enrolled in the local public school by the total number of days for which the pupils are enrolled in the local public school and dividing the product by 1,080 the number of hours of direct pupil instruction scheduled for pupils enrolled in the school district in the same grade as the pupil who is enrolled in the residential school.

AB972, s. 18 Section 18. 121.23 (2) (intro.) of the statutes, as affected by 1995 Wisconsin Act 27, is amended to read:

AB972,5,16 121.23 (2) (intro.) If a school district holds less than 180 days of school the mini mum required hours of instruction as the result of a strike by school district em ployes, for the purposes of computing general aid, the department shall compute the school district's primary and secondary ceiling costs per member in accordance with the procedure specified in pars. (a) to (e). In making the calculation, the department shall:

AB972, s. 19 Section 19. Effective date.

AB972,5,18 (1)  This act takes effect on July 1, 1996.

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