118.02(1)
(1) January 15, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
118.02(2)
(2) February 12, Abraham Lincoln's birthday.
118.02(3)
(3) February 15, Susan B. Anthony's birthday.
118.02(4)
(4) February 22, George Washington's birthday.
118.02(5m)
(5m) March 17, for "The Great Hunger" in Ireland from 1845 to 1850.
118.02(5r)
(5r) April 9, Prisoners of War Remembrance Day.
118.02(7)
(7) April 22, Environmental Awareness Day.
118.02(7g)
(7g) The last Friday in April, Arbor Day, except that if the governor by proclamation sets apart one day to be designated as Arbor and Bird Day under
s. 14.16 (1), that day shall be appropriately observed.
118.02(7r)
(7r) June 14, if school is held, Robert M. La Follette, Sr. Day.
118.02(8)
(8) September 16, Mildred Fish Harnack Day.
118.02(9)
(9) September 17, U.S. Constitution Day.
118.02(9g)
(9g) Wednesday of the 3rd week in September, as part of Wonderful Wisconsin Week under
s. 14.16 (8), Wisconsin Day.
118.02(9r)
(9r) Friday of the 3rd week in September, POW-MIA Recognition Day.
118.02(10)
(10) September 28, Frances Willard Day.
118.02(12)
(12) October 12, Christopher Columbus' birthday.
118.02 History
History: 1975 c. 204,
219,
398,
422;
1979 c. 214,
301,
355;
1985 a. 232;
1987 a. 11,
16,
403;
1989 a. 146;
1993 a. 333;
1999 a. 83;
2001 a. 16,
20,
104,
105;
2003 a. 305;
2005 a. 149.
118.025
118.025
Arbor day observance. A school principal may request one free tree provided from state forest nurseries by the department of natural resources under
s. 28.06 for each 4th grade pupil in the school for planting in conjunction with an annual observance and celebration of arbor day.
118.025 History
History: 1981 c. 59.
118.03(1)(1) The school board shall adopt all the textbooks necessary for use in the schools under its charge. The list of the adopted books shall be filed with the school district clerk.
118.03(2)
(2) The school board may purchase textbooks and sell them to the pupils at cost or it may designate agents of the school district to sell the textbooks to the pupils. The agents, at stated times, shall make settlement with the school district for books sold. The agents may add a selling commission which shall not exceed 10% of the net price.
118.03(3)
(3) No dealer in textbooks may sell any books at a price to exceed 15% above the net list prices, transportation added thereto.
118.03(4)
(4) Any person violating this section may be fined not less than $25 nor more than $100.
118.03 History
History: 1983 a. 412.
118.035(1)(1) In this section, "school" means a public school and includes a charter school other than a charter school under
s. 118.40 (2r).
118.035(2)
(2) A school board may adopt a policy that requires all pupils enrolled in school in the school district, or all pupils enrolled in one or more schools in the school district, to wear a uniform while in school or while under the supervision of a school authority.
118.035(3)
(3) If a school board adopts a policy under
sub. (2), it shall do all of the following:
118.035(3)(a)
(a) Establish a method whereby the parent or guardian of a pupil enrolled in a school in which the policy is in effect may exempt his or her child from complying with the policy.
118.035(3)(b)
(b) Ensure that no pupil is penalized academically or otherwise discriminated against because the pupil's parent or guardian has chosen to exempt the pupil from complying with the policy.
118.035(3)(c)
(c) Notify each parent or guardian of a pupil enrolled in a school in which the policy will be implemented of the policy at least 3 months before the school board implements the policy.
118.035(3)(d)
(d) Assist economically disadvantaged pupils to obtain the uniforms.
118.035(4)
(4) The requirements under
sub. (3) do not apply to any school board that has in effect on September 1, 2001, a school uniform policy for pupils enrolled in a school in the school district and has had such a policy in effect continuously since that date.
118.035(5)
(5) By July 1, 2005, the department shall submit a report to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under
s. 13.172 (3). The report shall address all of the following issues relating to the imposition of school uniforms by school boards:
118.035(5)(a)
(a) Methods of encouraging the involvement of the parents or guardians of pupils enrolled in a school district in a school board's decision to require school uniforms.
118.035(5)(c)
(c) The effect of the imposition of the requirement on crime in the school, including weapons possession, assault, battery, and vandalism, and on pupil suspensions and expulsions.
118.035(6)
(6) Nothing in this section affects the authority of a school board to require pupils to wear uniforms for extracurricular activities, and the provisions of
sub. (3) do not apply to such a requirement.
118.035 History
History: 2001 a. 16.
118.04
118.04
Summer classes. Any school board may elect to operate summer classes or to permit pupils to attend summer classes operated by another school district on a tuition basis if the school district of operation will accept them.
Sections 118.15 and
118.16 shall not apply to summer classes. Every school board electing to operate summer classes:
118.04(1)
(1) Shall make rules governing attendance and cause them to be spread on the school board minutes.
118.04(2)
(2) May accord to children living in the school district during the summer session the status of residents of the school district for the purpose of attendance at summer classes, even though the children were not regular residents of the school district during the preceding regular school session, but any such children who are not legal residents of the state shall not be counted in computing the state aid to which the school district is entitled.
118.04(3)
(3) May permit children from another school district to attend summer classes upon payment of nonresident tuition.
118.04(4)
(4) Shall not charge tuition for attendance at summer classes of pupils who are residents of the school district if the school board receives aid for such classes under
s. 121.14. The school board may establish and collect reasonable fees for social, recreational or extracurricular summer classes and programs which are neither credited toward graduation nor aided under
s. 121.14.
118.04 History
History: 1983 a. 27.
118.045
118.045
Commencement of school term. 118.045(1)
(1) Except as provided in
subs. (2) and
(3), beginning in the year 2000, no public school may commence the school term until September 1.
118.045(2)
(2) Subsection (1) does not prohibit a school board from doing any of the following:
118.045(2)(a)
(a) Holding athletic contests or practices before September 1.
118.045(2)(b)
(b) Scheduling in-service days or work days before September 1.
118.045(3)
(3) A school board may commence the school term before September 1 in any school year if the school board requests the department to allow it to commence the school term before September 1 and the school board includes reasons with its request. The department may grant a request only if it determines that there are extraordinary reasons for granting it. The department shall promulgate rules to implement and administer this subsection.
118.045 History
History: 1999 a. 9;
2001 a. 16.
118.045 Cross-reference
Cross Reference: See also ch.
PI 27, Wis. adm. code.
118.05
118.05
School conservation camps. 118.05(1)
(1) To promote an understanding of geology, geography, conservation, nature study and other aspects of general knowledge which are learned best by actual contact with nature itself, any school district may establish, operate and maintain and levy taxes to support individually or in cooperation with other school districts or municipalities a school conservation camp. The camp need not be within the school district.
118.05(2)
(2) The school board of any such district may operate, contribute to the operation of, participate in the joint operation of, pay or charge fees for the operation of the school conservation camp. The school board may admit nonresident pupils as well as resident pupils of the school district. The school board shall determine age and other entrance requirements and the program to be offered. The camp may be operated in summer or at any other time that the school board determines.
118.05(3)
(3) The school board may acquire, rent or accept the free use of facilities and equipment to operate the camp and may accept private contributions of any kind.
118.05(4)
(4) The school board may conduct the camp on property under the custody of other municipal, state or federal agencies when permission is granted or on private property with consent of the owner.
118.05(5)
(5) Every state agency shall cooperate in making their staff and facilities available to further the objectives of this program.
118.06
118.06
Flag, pledge of allegiance, and national anthem. 118.06(1)(1) Every school board and the governing body of every private school shall cause the U.S. flag to be displayed in the schoolroom or from a flagstaff on each school ground during the school hours of each school day.
118.06(2)
(2) Every public school shall offer the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem in grades one to 12 each school day. Every private school shall offer the pledge of allegiance or the national anthem in grades one to 12 each school day unless the governing body of the private school determines that the requirement conflicts with the school's religious doctrines. No pupil may be compelled, against the pupil's objections or those of the pupil's parents or guardian, to recite the pledge or to sing the anthem.
118.06 History
History: 1993 a. 492;
2001 a. 16.
118.07
118.07
Health and safety requirements. 118.07(1)
(1) Every school board and the governing body of every private school shall provide a standard first aid kit for use in cases of emergency.
118.07(2)
(2) Once each month, without previous warning, the person having direct charge of any public or private school shall drill all pupils in the proper method of departure from the building as if in case of fire, except when the person having direct charge deems that the health of the pupils may be endangered by inclement weather conditions. The school board or governing body of the private school shall maintain for at least 7 years a record of each fire drill conducted.
118.07(3)
(3) The department shall make available to school districts, private schools, and charter schools information about meningococcal disease, including the causes and symptoms of the disease, how it is spread, and how to obtain additional information about the disease and the availability, effectiveness, and risks of vaccinations against the disease. The department may do so by posting the information on its Internet site. At the beginning of the 2006-07 to 2011-12 school years, each school board and the governing body of each private school and each charter school shall provide the parents and guardians of pupils enrolled in grades 6 to 12 in the school district or school with the information. At the beginning of the 2012 school year and each school year thereafter, each school board and the governing body of each private school and each charter school shall provide the parents and guardians of pupils enrolled in grade 6 in the school district or school with the information.
Effective date note
NOTE: Sub. (3) is repealed eff. the day after the revisor of statutes publishes in the Wisconsin Administrative Register a statement that the secretary of health and family services has promulgated a rule under section 252.04 (2) of the statutes that requires vaccinations against meningitis.
118.08
118.08
School zones; crossings. 118.08(1)
(1) On any street or highway which borders the grounds of any public or private school in which school is held for a term of not less than 6 months, the authority in charge of the maintenance of the street or highway shall erect black and yellow "school" warning signs. The authority may also designate school crossings across any street or highway, whether or not the street or highway borders on the grounds of a school.
118.08(2)
(2) All signs required by this section and their installation shall comply with standards adopted by the department of transportation.
118.09(1)(1) Every school district maintaining a school outside the corporate limits of a city or village shall provide at the school site a zone which will provide safety for pupils from vehicular traffic during loading and unloading of pupils at the school. The zone may consist of a widening toward or into the schoolyard of the traveled portion of the adjacent highway so as to permit a vehicle to stop in the extended area completely clear of such traveled portion or may be constructed wholly within the schoolyard with connecting roads to the adjacent highway. The zone and approaches from the highway for use of vehicles shall be graveled or hard-surfaced.
118.09(2)
(2) The school district shall cooperate with the agency of the town, county or state having jurisdiction of the highway to the end that matters pertaining to the highway will be properly protected. Contracts for the necessary materials and construction and maintenance, including snow removal, of zones may be entered into with the county or town or with private persons. If the contracting party does not have jurisdiction over the highway, the contract shall be approved by the agency of the state, county or town having jurisdiction over the highway before any work is commenced thereunder.
118.09(3)
(3) All loading and unloading of pupils at the school, whether transported by a public or private vehicle, shall take place in the safety zone. The operator of a vehicle under contract to transport pupils to the school shall have necessary police powers so that pupils will be properly safeguarded in loading and unloading at the zone and while the operator's vehicle is approaching and leaving the zone. The operator shall first alight before loading or unloading pupils at the zone, and while at stops on the operator's highway route to load and unload pupils, the operator shall exhibit the vehicle's stop sign.
118.09(4)
(4) Private schools shall comply with this section to the same extent as school districts.
118.09 History
History: 1993 a. 492.
118.10
118.10
School safety patrols. Any school board may organize school safety patrols and, with the permission of the parents, appoint pupils as members thereof for the purpose of influencing and encouraging the other pupils to refrain from crossing public highways at points other than at regular crossings and for the purpose of directing pupils not to cross highways at times when the presence of traffic would render such crossing unsafe. Nothing in this section authorizes or permits the use of any safety patrol member for the purpose of directing vehicular traffic, nor may any safety patrol member be stationed in that portion of the highway intended for the use of vehicular traffic. No liability shall attach to the school district or any individual, school board member, school district administrator, teacher or other school authority by virtue of the organization, maintenance or operation of a school safety patrol organized, maintained and operated under this section.
118.10 History
History: 1997 a. 113.
118.105
118.105
Control of traffic on school premises. 118.105(1)
(1) Any school board may request local authorities to control motor vehicle and pedestrian traffic on off-highway school premises located within the jurisdiction of such local authorities.
