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2015 - 2016 LEGISLATURE
February 25, 2016 - Introduced by Representatives Rodriguez, Kooyenga,
Brandtjen, Gannon, Hutton and Kremer, cosponsored by Senators Darling,
Stroebel and Vukmir. Referred to Committee on Education.
AB951,1,5 1An Act to amend 20.255 (2) (fm), 20.255 (2) (fp) and 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. e.; and to
2create
118.40 (2r) (fm), 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. bf., 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. bn., 118.40 (2r)
3(g) 1. df., 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. dn., 118.40 (2x) (em) and 118.40 (2x) (f) 1. c., d. and
4e. of the statutes; relating to: summer school payments to operators of
5independent charter schools and making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill requires the Department of Public Instruction to pay an operator of an
independent charter school for pupils who attend summer school at the independent
charter school in the same manner that DPI pays a private school participating in
a parental choice program for pupils who attend summer school at the participating
private school. Under current law, DPI does not pay an operator of an independent
charter school for pupils who attend summer school at the independent charter
school.
Under the bill, the amount paid for each pupil who attends summer school at
the independent charter school is 5 percent of the per pupil amount paid to the
operator for a pupil who attends the independent charter school for the school year.
If the independent charter school is authorized by the Gateway Technical College
District Board, the county executive of Waukesha County, the College of Menominee
Nation, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa Community College, or the director of the
Office of Educational Opportunity within the University of Wisconsin System, the
amount paid to the operator for a pupil to attend summer school at the independent
charter school is subtracted from the pupil's resident school district's state aid.

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:
AB951,1 1Section 1. 20.255 (2) (fm) of the statutes, as affected by 2015 Wisconsin Act
255
, is amended to read:
AB951,2,43 20.255 (2) (fm) Charter schools. A sum sufficient to make the payments to
4charter schools under s. 118.40 (2r) (e) and, (f), and (fm).
AB951,2 5Section 2. 20.255 (2) (fp) of the statutes, as created by 2015 Wisconsin Act 55,
6is amended to read:
AB951,2,87 20.255 (2) (fp) Charter schools; office of educational opportunity. A sum
8sufficient to make the payments to charter schools under s. 118.40 (2x) (e) and (em).
AB951,3 9Section 3. 118.40 (2r) (fm) of the statutes is created to read:
AB951,2,1510 118.40 (2r) (fm) 1. Beginning in the 2016-17 school year, in addition to the
11payment under par. (e) and subject to subd. 3., for a pupil attending summer school
12at a charter school established by or under a contract with an entity under par. (b)
131. a. to f., the state superintendent shall pay to the operator of the charter school, in
14the manner described in par. (e) 3m., an amount determined by multiplying the per
15pupil amount under par. (e) for that school year by 0.05.
AB951,2,2116 2. Beginning in the 2016-17 school year, in addition to the payment under par.
17(f) and subject to subd. 3., for a pupil attending summer school at a charter school
18established by or under a contract with an entity under par. (b) 1. g. or h., the state
19superintendent shall pay to the operator of the charter school, in the manner
20described in sub. (f) 2., an amount determined by multiplying the per pupil amount
21under par. (f) 1. for that school year by 0.05.
AB951,3,2
13. An operator of a charter school may receive a per pupil payment under this
2paragraph if all of the following are satisfied:
AB951,3,43 a. The charter school offers no fewer than 19 summer days of instruction during
4that summer.
AB951,3,65 b. Each summer day of instruction offered by the charter school under subd.
63. a. is comprised of no fewer than 270 minutes of instruction.
AB951,3,97 c. Each pupil for whom the charter school seeks a payment under subd. 1.
8attends no fewer than 15 days of summer instruction at the charter school during
9that summer.
AB951,4 10Section 4. 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. bf. of the statutes is created to read:
AB951,3,1311 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. bf. Determine the number of pupils residing in the school
12district for whom a payment is made under par. (fm) to an operator of a charter school
13established under contract with an entity under par. (b) 1. e. or f. in that school year.
AB951,5 14Section 5. 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. bn. of the statutes is created to read:
AB951,3,1615 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. bn. Multiply the number of pupils under subd. 1. bf. by the
16per pupil amount calculated under par. (fm) 1. for that school year.
AB951,6 17Section 6. 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. df. of the statutes is created to read:
AB951,3,2018 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. df. Determine the number of pupils residing in the school
19district for whom a payment is made under par. (fm) to an operator of a charter school
20established under contract with an entity under par. (b) 1. g. or h. in that school year.
AB951,7 21Section 7. 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. dn. of the statutes is created to read:
AB951,3,2322 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. dn. Multiply the number of pupils under subd. 1. df. by the
23per pupil amount calculated under par. (fm) 2. for that school year.
AB951,8 24Section 8. 118.40 (2r) (g) 1. e. of the statutes, as created by 2015 Wisconsin Act
2555
, is amended to read:
AB951,4,2
1118.40 (2r) (g) 1. e. Sum the amounts determined under subd. 1. b. and bn., d.,
2and dn.
AB951,9 3Section 9. 118.40 (2x) (em) of the statutes is created to read:
AB951,4,84 118.40 (2x) (em) 1. Beginning in the 2016-17 school year, in addition to the
5payment under par. (e) and subject to subd. 2., for a pupil attending summer school
6at a charter school established under this subsection, the state superintendent shall
7pay to the operator of the charter school, in the manner described in par. (e) 2., the
8per pupil amount determined under sub. (2r) (fm) for that school year.
AB951,4,109 2. An operator of a charter school may receive a per pupil payment under this
10paragraph if all of the following are satisfied:
AB951,4,1211 a. The charter school offers no fewer than 19 summer days of instruction during
12that summer.
AB951,4,1413 b. Each summer day of instruction offered by the charter school under subd.
142. a. is comprised of no fewer than 270 minutes of instruction.
AB951,4,1715 c. Each pupil for whom the charter school seeks a payment under subd. 1.
16attends no fewer than 15 days of summer instruction at the charter school during
17that summer.
AB951,10 18Section 10. 118.40 (2x) (f) 1. c., d. and e. of the statutes are created to read:
AB951,4,2019 118.40 (2x) (f) 1. c. Determine the number of pupils residing in the school
20district for whom a payment is made under par. (em) 1. in that school year.
AB951,4,2221 d. Multiply the number of pupils under subd. 1. c. by the per pupil amount
22calculated under par. (em) 1. for that school year
AB951,4,2323 e. Sum the amounts determined under subd. 1. b. and d.
AB951,11 24Section 11. Initial applicability.
AB951,5,2
1(1) This act first applies to payments for pupils who attend summer school
2during the summer of 2016.
AB951,5,33 (End)
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