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2013 - 2014 LEGISLATURE
December 12, 2013 - Introduced by Representative J. Ott, cosponsored by Senator
Grothman. Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
AB555,1,3 1An Act to amend 118.53 (2) and 118.53 (3) of the statutes; relating to:
2standards for admission into a course offered by a school district of a pupil
3enrolled in a home-based private educational program.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Current law establishes minimum age requirements for the admission of a
pupil into four-year-old kindergarten, five-year-old kindergarten, and first grade
but permits a school board of a school district to establish standards for early
admission into five-year-old kindergarten and first grade. Current law also
requires the school board of each school district to establish standards for admission
into high school.
Prior to the enactment of 2013 Wisconsin Act 20 (the biennial budget bill), the
law required school boards of school districts operating high school grades to allow
a pupil enrolled in a private school, a tribal school, or a home-based educational
program and who met the standards for admission to high school to take up to two
courses during each school semester if the pupil resided in the school district and if
there was sufficient space in the classroom. Act 20 expanded this opportunity to
permit any pupil enrolled in a home-based private educational program, and not just
a pupil who meets the standards for admission to high school, to attend up to two
courses during each school semester in any public school in any school district in the
state if the pupil meets the standards for admission to the course. Act 20 also
required school districts to determine minimum standards for admission to a course
at each grade.

This bill modifies the expanded program created under Act 20 to reflect the fact
that prior law permitted a pupil enrolled in a home-based educational program to
attend courses in the high school grades if the pupil met the standards for admission
to high school.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB555,1 1Section 1. 118.53 (2) of the statutes, as created by 2013 Wisconsin Act 20, is
2amended to read:
AB555,2,63 118.53 (2) In addition to the standards for admission under ss. 118.14, 118.145
4(1), and 120.12 (25), the school board of a district shall determine the minimum
5standards for admission to a course offered by the school district at each grade in
6grades kindergarten through 8
.
AB555,2 7Section 2. 118.53 (3) of the statutes, as created by 2013 Wisconsin Act 20, is
8amended to read:
AB555,2,139 118.53 (3) A school board shall allow a pupil enrolled in a home-based private
10educational program, who has met the standards for admission to the course under
11sub. (2), to attend up to 2 courses at a public school in the district during each school
12semester if the school board determines that there is sufficient space in the
13classroom.
AB555,2,1414 (End)
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