AB1: Bill Text

AB1,15,22 2. Implement for 4 school years an alternative improvement plan approved by the review board.

AB1,16,5 (b) Beginning with an accountability report received under s. 115.385 for the 2015-16 school year for a public school other than a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r), and with a review report received in the 2016-17 school year for a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r), if a public school, including a charter school, receives under sub. (3) (a) or s. 115.385 a grade of "F" in the 3rd school year of any 3 consecutive school years, the state superintendent shall require the school board or operator of the charter school to immediately undertake one of the following measures for improving the performance of the school:

AB1,16,7 1. a. Develop goals, implement a reform plan, and, subject to subd. 1. b., comply for 4 school years with requirements imposed on a priority school.

AB1,16,13 b. If the public school subject to sanctions under subd. 1. a. is designated a focus school or a priority school at the time the state superintendent requires action under this paragraph, at the end of the 4-school-year period described under subd. 1. a., the public school shall be required to comply with any requirements in effect at the time action is required under this paragraph if those requirements have not been satisfied.

AB1,16,15 2. Implement for 4 school years an alternative improvement plan approved by the review board.

AB1,16,23 (c) 1. Beginning with a review report received in the 2016-17 school year, if the state superintendent determines that a private school that has 20 or more pupils participating in a parental choice program has received under sub. (3) (a) a grade of "D" in the 3rd school year of any 3 consecutive school years in which the school has participated in a parental choice program, the state superintendent shall require the private school to immediately undertake one of the following measures for improving the performance of the private school as a condition for continued participation in a parental choice program:

AB1,16,25 a. Develop goals, implement a reform plan, and comply for 4 years with requirements imposed on a focus school.

AB1,17,2 b. Implement for 4 school years an alternative improvement plan approved by the review board.

AB1,17,7 c. Choose to accept no additional pupils under a parental choice program for the next 2 consecutive school years following the state superintendent's determination under this paragraph. At the end of the 2-year period, a private school may reapply to participate in a parental choice program but shall be required to comply with the requirements under subd. 1. a. or b.

AB1,17,9 d. Withdraw from the parental choice program and fulfill any contractual requirements with the department as soon as practicable.

AB1,17,16 2. If a private school subject to this paragraph elects to withdraw from the parental choice program as provided in subd. 1. d., the private school may not reapply to participate in a parental choice program for the 4 school years following the state superintendent's determination under this paragraph. If the private school elects to reapply to participate in a parental choice program at the end of the 4 school years, the private school shall be required to comply with the requirements under subd. 1. a. or b.

AB1,17,24 (d) 1. Beginning with a review report received in the 2016-17 school year, if the state superintendent determines that a private school that has 20 or more pupils participating in a parental choice program has received under sub. (3) (a) a grade of "F" in the 3rd school year of any 3 consecutive school years in which the school has participated in a parental choice program, the state superintendent shall require the private school to undertake one of the following measures for improving the performance of the private school as a condition for continued participation in a parental choice program:

AB1,18,4 a. Develop goals, implement a reform plan, and comply for 4 years with requirements imposed on a priority school. The private school may apply payments received under ss. 118.60 (4) (bg) and (4m) and 119.23 (4) (bg) and (4m) towards the cost of the reform plan implemented under this subd. 1. a.

AB1,18,8 b. Implement for 4 school years an alternative improvement plan approved by the review board. The private school may apply payments received under ss. 118.60 (4) (bg) and (4m) and 119.23 (4) (bg) and (4m) towards the cost of the alternative improvement plan implemented under this subd. 1. b.

AB1,18,13 c. Choose to accept no additional pupils a under a parental choice program for the next 2 consecutive school years following the state superintendent's determination under this paragraph. At the end of the 2-year period, a private school may reapply to participate in a parental choice program, but shall be required to comply with the requirements under subd. 1. a.

AB1,18,15 d. Withdraw from the parental choice program and fulfill any contractual requirements with the department as soon as practicable.

AB1,18,22 2. If a private school subject to this paragraph elects to withdraw from the parental choice program as provided in subd. 1. d., the private school may not reapply to participate in a parental choice program for the 4 school years following the state superintendent's determination under this paragraph. If the private school elects to reapply to participate in a parental choice program at the end of the 4 school years, the private school shall be required to comply with the requirements under subd. 1. a.

AB1,19,3 (7) Sanctions - step ii. (a) If the review board determines that a public school subject to sanctions under sub. (6) (a) or (b) has failed to make adequate progress towards the goals developed under sub. (6) (a) 1. or (b) 1., or, for a school that implements an alternative improvement plan, has failed to improve its performance consistent with that plan, the school shall immediately be subject to any of the following:

AB1,19,10 1. For a public school, other than a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r), the department shall publish a request for proposals that directs interested applicants to submit a proposal to convert the public school to a charter school under the authority of the review board under s. 118.40 (2r) (b) 1. e. The department shall submit any proposal it receives to the review board for review. If the review board finds the proposal acceptable, the review board shall authorize the conversion of the public school to a charter school under s. 118.40 (2r).

AB1,19,13 2. Notwithstanding s. 118.40 (2) (b) 2. and (2m) (b), if the review board determines that no proposal submitted under subd. 1. is acceptable, the school board shall convert the school to a charter school under s. 118.40 (2m).

AB1,19,16 3. For a public school that is a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r), the department shall discontinue payments to the charter school under s. 118.40 (2r) (e) as soon as practicable under the terms of the contract.

AB1,20,6 (b) If the review board determines that a private school subject to sanctions under sub. (6) (c) or (d) has failed to make adequate progress towards the goals developed under sub. (6) (c) 1. or (d) 1., or, for a school that implements an alternative improvement plan, has failed to improve its performance consistent with that plan, the private school shall fulfill any contractual or other requirements with the department as soon as practicable, and the department shall discontinue payments to the private school as soon as practicable. The private school may not accept any new pupils under a parental choice program for 4 school years. The private school may reapply to participate in a parental choice program at the end of the 4 school years following the review board's determination under this paragraph. If the private school elects to reapply to participate in a parental choice program at the end of the 4 school years, a private school that had been subject to sanctions under sub. (6) (c) shall be required to comply with the requirements under sub. (6) (c) 1. a. or b., and a private school that had been subject to sanctions under sub. (6) (d) shall be required to comply with the requirements under sub. (6) (d) 1. a. or b.

AB1,20,12 (8) Annual review; exiting sanctions. (a) For each school subject to sanctions under sub. (6) or (7), the review board shall annually review the review report issued for the school to determine whether the school is making progress towards any goals established for the school under sub. (6) (a) 1., (b) 1., (c) 1., or (d) 1. or, for a school that implements an alternative improvement plan, if the school is improving performance consistent with that plan.

AB1,20,15 (b) The state superintendent, with the advice of the review board, may release a school subject to sanctions under sub. (6) or (7) from the requirements imposed upon the school by sub. (6) or (7) if either of the following applies:

AB1,20,18 1. The review board determines that the school has demonstrated measurable progress towards the goals established by the school under sub. (6) within the 48 months immediately following the imposition of sanctions under sub. (6).

AB1,20,21 2. The review board determines that the school is on a trajectory to meet the goals established by the school under sub. (6) within the 72 months immediately following the imposition of sanctions under sub. (6).

AB1,20,25 (9) Responsibilities of the academic review board. (a) The review board shall advise the department on the implementation, evaluation, and improvement of the school review system under this section. To accomplish the objectives of this paragraph, the review board shall do all of the following:

AB1,21,1 1. Develop, by rule, incentives to be given to exceptional schools.

AB1,21,5 2. Develop, by rule, incentives to be given to schools with a significant population of children at risk or of pupils receiving curriculum modifications under s. 118.15 (1) (d) and to schools offering technical educational programming under s. 118.33 (1) (g) or eligible for career and technical education grants under s. 115.367.

AB1,21,6 3. Develop, by rule, consequences to be borne by failing schools.

AB1,21,9 4. Develop, by rule, methods for evaluating and improving the collection of data from schools and developing and modifying when appropriate the criteria used to grade schools under sub. (3) (a).

AB1,21,11 5. Develop alternative improvement plans to be used by schools subject to sanctions under sub. (6).

AB1,21,16 6. Within 30 days after the effective date of this subdivision .... [LRB inserts date], request from the research center a list of alternative tests determined by the research center to be acceptable for statistical comparison with examinations adopted or approved under s. 118.30 (1). The review board shall evaluate and approve 3 of the tests, and shall provide the list of approved tests to the department.

AB1,21,23 7. In consultation with the department and the research center, establish, by rule, a procedure for the review and approval by the review board of applications by schools seeking to administer an alternative test not already approved under subd. 6. A test approved under this subdivision may be administered only by the school that applies to administer the test. The review board may approve under this subdivision only those tests that the research center has determined are consistent with the following parameters:

AB1,21,25 a. The test aligns sufficiently with content standards established for examinations adopted or approved under s. 118.30 (1).

AB1,22,2 b. The test is comprised of a variety of testing methodologies, including multiple choice and short answer, to assess a range of student skills.

AB1,22,4 c. The test includes accommodations or alternative assessments for students enrolled in a special education program under subch. V of ch. 115.

AB1,22,6 d. The test provider makes available translations for limited-English proficient pupils, as defined in s. 115.955 (7).

AB1,22,8 e. The test may be administered in a variety of modes, including with paper and pencil, in an online format, in a fixed form format, and in an adaptive format.

AB1,22,9 f. The test has internal consistency reliability coefficients of at least 0.8.

AB1,22,10 8. Develop, by rule, the qualifying score for each grade under sub. (2) (c).

AB1,22,16 (b) Beginning in 2017, in each odd-numbered year, no later than 60 days after the department issues review reports for schools under sub. (3) (a), the review board shall make recommendations to the department, provide a copy of the recommendations to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under s. 13.172 (3), and be prepared to make a presentation to a hearing or joint hearing of the appropriate standing committees of the legislature on all of the following:

AB1,22,18 1. How the grade of a school should be affected when a pupil is excused from taking an examination under s. 118.30 (2) (b) 3. to 6.

AB1,22,23 2. Policies that address appropriate accommodations on statewide assessments for a pupil attending a private school participating in a parental choice program who is a child with a disability, a limited-English proficient pupil, or economically disadvantaged, as defined in federal law, that are similar to the accommodations made for such pupils attending public schools.

AB1,22,25 3. Refining the information to be used by the department under sub. (4) for each measure specified in sub. (2) (a).

AB1,23,2 4. The methodology for measuring the performance of schools under this section.

AB1,23,4 5. The appropriate weight to be given each of the measures under sub. (2) (a) for the grades under sub. (2) (c).

AB1,23,5 6. The qualifying score for each grade under sub. (2) (c).

AB1,23,7 7. A list of nationally recognized, norm-referenced tests appropriate for approval by the review board under par. (a) 6. and 7.

AB1,23,9 8. Sanctions imposed upon, or lifted from, schools by the state superintendent under subs. (6), (7), and (8).

AB1,23,11 9. Actions, if any, taken by the state superintendent pursuant to the recommendations under subd. 8.

AB1,23,16 (10) Value-Added Research Center. Within 90 days after the effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date], the research center shall submit to the review board a list of alternative examinations determined by the research center to be acceptable for statistical comparison with examinations adopted or approved under s. 118.30 (1).

AB1,10 Section 10. 118.153 (1) (a) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,23,21 118.153 (1) (a) 5. Eighth grade pupils whose score in each subject area on the examination administered under s. 118.30 (1m) (am) 1. or (8) was below the basic level, 8th grade pupils who failed the examination administered under s. 118.30 (1m) (am) 2. or (8), and 8th grade pupils who failed to be promoted to the 9th grade.

AB1,11 Section 11. 118.30 (2) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,23,25 118.30 (2) (b) 3. Upon the request of a pupil's parent or guardian, the school board shall excuse the pupil from taking an examination administered under sub. (1m) or (8).

AB1,12 Section 12. 118.30 (2) (b) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,24,4 118.30 (2) (b) 4. Upon the request of a pupil's parent or guardian, the operator of a charter school under s. 118.40 (2r) shall excuse the pupil from taking an examination administered under sub. (1r) or (8).

AB1,13 Section 13. 118.30 (2) (b) 5. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,24,8 118.30 (2) (b) 5. Upon the request of a pupil's parent or guardian, the governing body of a private school participating in the program under s. 119.23 shall excuse the pupil from taking an examination administered under sub. (1s) (a) to (cm) or (8).

AB1,14 Section 14. 118.30 (2) (b) 6. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,24,12 118.30 (2) (b) 6. Upon the request of a pupil's parent or guardian, the governing body of a private school participating in the program under s. 118.60 shall excuse the pupil from taking an examination administered under sub. (1t) (a) to (cm) or (8).

AB1,15 Section 15. 118.30 (8) of the statutes is created to read:

AB1,24,23 118.30 (8) Notwithstanding subs. (1m), (1r), (1s), and (1t), a school board, an operator of a charter school under s. 118.40 (2r), and the governing body of a private school participating in a program under s. 118.60 or 119.23 is not required to administer an examination adopted or approved by the state superintendent under sub. (1) in any grade for which an examination is required to be administered under this section if the school board, operator, or governing body administers instead an alternative test approved by the academic review board under s. 115.39 (9) (a) 6. or 7. If a school elects to administer an alternative test approved by the academic review board, the school board, operator, or governing body of the school shall be responsible for the costs of the test and of administering the test.

AB1,16 Section 16. 118.33 (6) (a) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,25,9 118.33 (6) (a) 1. Each school board shall adopt a written policy specifying the criteria for promoting a pupil from the 4th grade to the 5th grade and from the 8th grade to the 9th grade. The criteria shall include the pupil's score on the examination administered under s. 118.30 (1m) (a) or (am) or (8), unless the pupil has been excused from taking the examination under s. 118.30 (2) (b); the pupil's academic performance; the recommendations of teachers, which shall be based solely on the pupil's academic performance; and any other academic criteria specified by the school board. Except as provided in par. (b) 1. and 3., the criteria apply to pupils enrolled in charter schools located in the school district.

AB1,17 Section 17. 118.33 (6) (b) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,25,18 118.33 (6) (b) 1. Each operator of a charter school under s. 118.40 (2r) shall adopt a written policy specifying the criteria for promoting a pupil from the 4th grade to the 5th grade and from the 8th grade to the 9th grade. The criteria shall include the pupil's score on the examination administered under s. 118.30 (1r) (a) or (am) or (8), unless the pupil has been excused from taking the examination under s. 118.30 (2) (b); the pupil's academic performance; the recommendations of teachers, which shall be based solely on the pupil's academic performance; and any other academic criteria specified by the operator of the charter school.

AB1,18 Section 18. 118.33 (6) (c) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,26,3 118.33 (6) (c) 1. The governing body of each private school participating in the program under s. 119.23 shall adopt a written policy specifying criteria for promoting a pupil who is attending the private school under s. 119.23 from the 4th grade to the 5th grade and from the 8th grade to the 9th grade. The criteria shall include the pupil's score on the examination administered under s. 118.30 (1s) (a) or (b) or (8), unless the pupil has been excused from taking the examination under s. 118.30 (2) (b); the pupil's academic performance; the recommendations of teachers, which shall be based solely on the pupil's academic performance; and any other academic criteria specified by the governing body of the private school.

AB1,19 Section 19. 118.33 (6) (cr) 1. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,26,13 118.33 (6) (cr) 1. The governing body of each private school participating in the program under s. 118.60 shall adopt a written policy specifying criteria for promoting a pupil who is attending the private school under s. 118.60 from the 4th grade to the 5th grade and from the 8th grade to the 9th grade. The criteria shall include the pupil's score on the examination administered under s. 118.30 (1t) (a) or (b) or (8), unless the pupil has been excused from taking the examination under s. 118.30 (2) (b); the pupil's academic performance; the recommendations of teachers, which shall be based solely on the pupil's academic performance; and any other academic criteria specified by the governing body of the private school.

AB1,20 Section 20. 118.40 (2r) (b) 1. e. of the statutes is created to read:

AB1,26,15 118.40 (2r) (b) 1. e. The academic review board under s. 115.39 (7) (a).

AB1,21 Section 21. 118.40 (2r) (bm) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,27,3 118.40 (2r) (bm) The common council of the city of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee area technical college district board may establish or enter into a contract for the establishment of a charter school located only in the school district operating under ch. 119. The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee may establish or enter into a contract for the establishment of a charter school located only in Milwaukee County or in an adjacent county. The chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside may only establish or enter into a contract for the establishment of a charter school located in a unified school district that is located in the county in which the University of Wisconsin-Parkside is situated or in an adjacent county. The academic review board under s. 115.39 (7) (a) 1. may establish or enter into a contract for the establishment of a charter school under this paragraph only for a public school subject to sanctions under s. 115.39 (7) (a) 1.

AB1,22 Section 22. 118.40 (2r) (d) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,27,6 118.40 (2r) (d) 2. Administer the examinations under ss. 118.30 (1r) and 121.02 (1) (r) to pupils enrolled in charter schools under this subsection.

AB1,23 Section 23. 118.42 of the statutes is repealed.

AB1,24 Section 24. 118.60 (2) (ag) 3. of the statutes is repealed.

AB1,25 Section 25. 118.60 (7) (a) of the statutes is repealed.

AB1,26 Section 26. 118.60 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,27,14 118.60 (7) (e) Each private school participating in the program under this section shall administer the examinations required under s. 118.30 (1t) to pupils attending the school under the program. The private school may administer additional standardized tests to such pupils.

AB1,27 Section 27. 118.60 (10) (a) 4. of the statutes is repealed.

AB1,28 Section 28. 119.23 (2) (ag) 3. of the statutes is repealed.

AB1,29 Section 29. 119.23 (7) (a) of the statutes is repealed.

AB1,30 Section 30. 119.23 (7) (e) of the statutes is amended to read:

AB1,27,22 119.23 (7) (e) Each private school participating in the program under this section shall administer the examinations required under s. 118.30 (1s) to pupils attending the school under the program. The private school may administer additional standardized tests to such pupils.

AB1,31 Section 31. 119.23 (10) (a) 4. of the statutes is repealed.