The bill requires the state superintendent to increase the severity of sanctions
imposed upon schools that receive failing grades in two steps: Steps I and II. The
sanctions imposed upon public schools, including independent charter schools, differ
in some respects from the sanctions imposed upon private schools participating in
a PCP.
Step I sanctions
For a public school, or a private school at which at least 20 pupils attending the
school are participating in a PCP, that receives a grade of "D" on the third review
report of three consecutive review reports, the school must develop goals, implement
a reform plan, and comply with the requirements imposed upon Title I focus schools
for four consecutive years. The school may choose to comply with an alternative
improvement plan approved by the ARB.
For a public school, or a private school at which at least 20 pupils attending the
school are participating in a PCP, that receives a grade of "F" on the third review
report of three consecutive review reports, the public school must develop goals,
implement a reform plan, and comply with the requirements imposed upon Title I
priority schools for four consecutive years. The school may choose to comply with an
alternative improvement plan approved by the ARB.
A private school subject to Step I sanctions may choose to accept no new pupils
under a PCP for two school years or to withdraw entirely from the PCP for four school
years and to reapply to the program at the end of the two- or four-year period. If the
private school chooses either of these options, the private school must implement the
improvement plan to which the school would have been subject had the school not
elected to withdraw from the PCP.
Step II sanctions
If the ARB determines that a school subject to Step I sanctions has not made
adequate progress towards the improvement goals established under the Step I
sanctions, the state superintendent may impose any of the following Step II
sanctions:
1. For a public school other than an independent charter school, DPI must
publish a request for proposals that directs interested applicants to submit a
proposal to convert the public school to an independent charter school. DPI must
forward any proposals to the ARB for its review. If the ARB finds a proposal
acceptable, the ARB must authorize the conversion of the public school to an
independent charter school.
2. For a public school described under item 1, if no proposal is acceptable, the
school board must convert the school to a charter school under its authority.
3. For a public school that is an independent charter school, DPI must
discontinue payments to the charter school as soon as practicable under the terms
of the contract.
4. For a private school, the private school must fulfill any contractual or other
requirements with DPI, and DPI must discontinue payments to the private school
as soon as practicable. In addition, the private school may not accept any new pupils
under a PCP for four school years. The private school may reapply to participate in
a PCP after four school years. The private school would be subject to the same
requirements imposed upon private schools withdrawing from a PCP under Step I
sanctions.
Exiting sanctions
Under the bill, the state superintendent may release a school from sanctions if
the ARB determines that the school has either demonstrated measurable progress
towards the goals established by the school within four years or is on a trajectory to
meet the goals within six years.
University of Wisconsin-Madison Value-Added Research Center
The bill requires VARC to statistically equate achievement data and scores
derived from nationally recognized, norm-referenced tests to the scores obtained on
standardized examinations adopted or approved by the state superintendent and
required to be administered to pupils attending public schools in this state. The
purpose of statistically equating the scores is to be able to measure the achievement
and growth of pupils attending the school against the achievement and growth of
pupils attending schools where the examinations adopted or approved by the state
superintendent are administered.
Under the bill, VARC must also provide to the ARB a list of alternative tests
determined by VARC to be acceptable for statistical comparison with the
examinations adopted or approved by the state superintendent that may be
administered by schools instead of the examinations adopted or approved by the
state superintendent. Finally, the bill requires VARC to work with the ARB and DPI
to review alternative tests proposed for administration by individual schools.
Educational options
This bill directs each school board to annually inform the parent or guardian
of each child between the ages of 3 and 18 who resides in the school district of the
educational options available for the child.
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:
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1Section
1. 15.07 (1) (a) 6. of the statutes is created to read:
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15.07
(1) (a) 6. Members of the academic review board appointed under s.
315.375 (3) shall be nominated as provided in that section, and with the advice of the
4senate education committee and consent of the senate appointed, to serve for terms
5prescribed by law.
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6Section
2. 15.07 (3) (bm) 8. of the statutes is created to read:
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15.07
(3) (bm) 8. The academic review board shall meet at least 2 times each
8year.
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9Section
3. 15.375 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
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15.375
(3) Academic review board. (a) There is created an academic review
11board, attached to the department of public instruction under s. 15.03, consisting of
12the following members appointed as specified for staggered 4-year terms:
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1. The state superintendent or his or her designee.
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2. One principal of a public school, nominated by the state superintendent.
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13. One representative of a college or university in the University of Wisconsin
2System, nominated by the state superintendent.
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4. One individual employed as instructional staff, as defined in s. 118.40 (2r)
4(a), by a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r), nominated by the state
5superintendent.
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5. One administrator, as defined in s. 115.39 (1) (a), of a private school
7participating in a parental choice program, as defined in s. 115.39 (1) (d), nominated
8by the state superintendent.
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6. One teacher employed by a private school, participating in a parental choice
10program under s. 118.60 or 119.23, nominated by the state superintendent.
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7. One representative of a technical college located in this state, nominated by
12the state superintendent.
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8. One representative of a private college or university in this state, nominated
14by the governor.
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9. One individual nominated by the governor.
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10. One principal of a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r),
17nominated by the minority leader of the assembly.
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11. One individual nominated by the speaker of the assembly.
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12. One teacher employed by a school district, nominated by the senate
20minority leader.
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13. One individual nominated by the senate majority leader.
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(b) The academic review board may appoint nonvoting members to serve on the
23board in an advisory capacity.
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24Section
4. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
25the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
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1Section
5. 20.255 (1) (fm) of the statutes is created to read:
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20.255
(1) (fm)
Value-Added Research Center. The amounts in the schedule to
3pay the costs of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Value-Added Research Center
4under s. 115.39 (4) (e).
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5Section
6. 115.28 (61) of the statutes is created to read:
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115.28
(61) Educational options. Annually, in January, inform the parent or
7guardian of each child who is at least 3 years old but not yet 18 years old who resides
8in the school district of the educational options available to the child, including public
9schools, private schools participating in a parental choice program, charter schools,
10full-time open enrollment, youth options, and course options.
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11Section
7. 115.28 (62) of the statutes is created to read:
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115.28
(62) Alternative tests. Publish on the department's Internet site a list
13of alternative tests approved by the academic review board under s. 115.39 (9) (a) 6.
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14Section
8. 115.385 (3) of the statutes is created to read:
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115.385
(3) This section does not apply after September 30, 2017.
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16Section
9. 115.39 of the statutes is created to read:
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17115.39 School review system. (1) Definitions. In this section:
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(a) "Administrator" means the superintendent, supervising principal,
19executive director, or other person who acts as the administrative head of a private
20school participating in a parental choice program.
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1(b) "Child at risk" has the meaning given in s. 118.153 (1) (a).
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(c) "Focus school" means a Title I public school identified as a focus school by
3the department or by the school district as eligible to receive funding under
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46303 (g) for the purpose of developing and implementing a school reform plan.
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(d) "Parental choice program" means the program under s. 118.60 or 119.23.
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(e) "Priority school" means a Title I public school identified as a priority school
7by the department or by the school district as eligible to receive funding under
20
8USC 6303 (g) for the purpose of implementing rigorous interventions in the school.
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(f) "Research center" means the University of Wisconsin-Madison
10Value-Added Research Center.
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(g) "Review board" means the academic review board.
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(h) "School" means a public school, including a charter school, and a private
13school participating in a parental choice program.
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(i) "Title I" means Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education
15Act of 1965.
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16(2) Review system; evaluation and grades. No later than 24 months after the
17effective date of this subsection .... [LRB inserts date], the review board shall
18establish, by rule, a comprehensive school review system to be implemented by the
19department beginning in the 2017-18 school year. The review board shall include
20all of the following components in the review system:
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(a) 1. Subject to subds. 2. and 3., multiple measures to determine a school's
22performance, including all of the following categorized by English language
23proficiency, disability, income level, and race or ethnicity:
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a. Pupil achievement in reading and mathematics.
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1b. Growth in pupil achievement in reading and mathematics, calculated using
2a value-added methodology that includes demographic controls.
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c. Gap closure in growth in pupil achievement in reading and mathematics and,
4when available, in graduation rates.
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d. Rates of attendance or of high school graduation. The measure under this
6subd. 1. d. shall include a measure of improvement in addition to a measure of
7attainment.
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2. Beginning 4 years after the effective date of this subdivision .... [LRB inserts
9date], and once every 2 years thereafter, the review board shall review the measures
10under subd. 1. to determine whether the measures sufficiently and accurately reflect
11the performance of a school. The review board shall prepare and furnish to the
12governor, the speaker of the assembly, the senate majority leader, and the
13department a report summarizing the findings under this subdivision.
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3. The department shall determine the appropriate weight to be given each of
15the measures under this paragraph for the grades under par. (c).
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(b) Measures to ensure that all applicable data elements collected and
17calculations performed are done consistently and in a uniform manner for all schools.
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(c) A grading system to rate a school's level of performance. The department
19shall use the following grading system consisting of a letter grade:
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25(3) Review report. The department shall do all of the following:
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1(a) Beginning with data collected from the 2015-16 school year for a public
2school other than a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r), and with data
3collected from the 2016-17 school year for a private school participating in a parental
4choice program and a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r), except as
5provided in sub. (5) (c), annually grade the performance of each school using the
6grading system under sub. (2) (c) and issue a review report for the school that is clear
7and easily understandable. Except with regard to pupil achievement and attendance
8and high school graduation status, the department shall base the grade issued for
9each school year on data derived from the preceding school year.
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(b) Collect and disseminate the best practices from schools, except that the
11department may not collect information for this purpose from a private school
12participating in a parental choice program without the private school's consent.
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(c) On the review report for a private school participating in a parental choice
14program, specify the percentage of pupils attending the private school under a
15parental choice program and comply with one of the following:
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1. For a private school that submits achievement data only for those pupils
17attending the private school under the parental choice program, identify the grade
18derived from data about those pupils as a choice pupil grade.
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2. Notwithstanding sub. (5) (b), for a private school that submits achievement
20data under sub. (4) (a) or (e) for those pupils attending the private school under the
21parental choice program and for all other pupils attending the private school,
22identify the grade derived from data about pupils attending the school under a
23parental choice program as a choice pupil grade. The department shall also identify
24a 2nd grade, derived from data about all pupils attending the private school
25including pupils attending the private school under the parental choice program, as
1the private school grade. The department may use only the choice pupil grade
2identified under this subdivision in determining when a sanction may be imposed
3under this section.
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(d) Include a data component in a school review report for a school year only
5if the component includes data from at least 20 pupils in that school year.
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(e) At least 30 days before issuing a review report for a school under this section,
7provide the school an opportunity to review a preliminary version of the report and
8correct errors.
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(f) Annually provide the review board with a copy of the review report.
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10(4) Data used to evaluate school performance. Subject to sub. (5) (b), the
11department may use only the following information for each measure specified in
12sub. (2) (a):
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(a) For measuring pupil achievement in reading and mathematics under sub.
14(2) (a) 1. a.:
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1. Scores on the reading and mathematics examinations administered under
16s. 118.30, including scores on the alternate reading and mathematics examinations
17administered to children with significant cognitive disabilities.