118.075
118.075
Indoor environmental quality in schools. 118.075(1)(1)
Definition. In this section, "task force" means the indoor environmental quality in schools task force established under
sub. (2).
118.075(2)(a)(a) The state superintendent shall establish a special committee under
s. 15.04 (1) (c) called the indoor environmental quality in schools task force. The task force shall consist of the following members:
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2. The secretary of safety and professional services or his or her designee.
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3. The secretary of health services or his or her designee.
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4. One member who is a representative of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards.
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5. One member who is a representative of the Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators.
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6. Three members who are representatives of the Wisconsin Association of School Business Officials and who have expertise in indoor environmental quality in schools.
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7. One member who is a representative of the Wisconsin Council of Religious and Independent Schools.
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8. One member who is a representative of the Wisconsin Association of School Nurses.
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9. One member who is a representative of the largest statewide labor organization representing teachers.
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10. One member who is a representative of the largest statewide organization representing parents of pupils.
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11. One member who is an occupational health physician or allergist and who has expertise in indoor environmental quality in schools.
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12. One member who is registered as an architect under
ch. 443 and who has expertise in school design and construction.
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13. One member who is registered as a professional engineer under
ch. 443 and who has expertise in the design of mechanical systems for schools.
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14. Two members who are industrial hygienists certified by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene and who have expertise in indoor environmental quality in schools.
118.075(2)(b)
(b) The state superintendent shall appoint the members of the task force specified in
par. (a) 4. to
14., shall appoint or determine the method of appointment of the officers of the task force, and shall call the first meeting of the task force.
118.075(2)(c)
(c) The department shall provide administrative support services to the task force. The task force may call upon any state agency or officer to assist the task force, and those agencies or officers shall cooperate with the task force to the fullest extent possible. The department may contract with professionals who are knowledgeable and experienced in indoor environmental quality management in schools to assist the task force in making its recommendations under
par. (e) 1.
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(d) The department of administration shall reimburse members of the task force for their actual and necessary expenses incurred in carrying out their functions from the appropriation account under
s. 20.505 (1) (ka).
118.075(2)(e)1.
1. Make recommendations to the department for the development of a model management plan for maintaining indoor environmental quality in public and private schools that reflects best management practices. The task force shall consider including in its recommendations all of the following components:
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a. Designating a school district or private school employee as the indoor environmental quality contact for the school district or private school.
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b. Establishing an indoor environmental quality committee composed of school administrators, teachers, educational support professionals, and custodial and maintenance staff.
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c. Developing a plan for communicating with school district or private school employees, pupils, and parents and guardians of pupils about indoor environmental quality problems, including test results, and proposed schedules for remediation.
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d. Identifying procedures for handling complaints about indoor environmental quality.
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e. Acknowledging that the school district or private school will continue to meet all health and safety laws or codes that apply to the school district or private school.
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f. Developing a plan for addressing indoor environmental quality issues noted during an evaluation of building systems performed in accordance with department rules on safe and healthful facilities.
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g. Providing for an annual review of the management plan by the indoor environmental quality contact and the school board or private school governing board.
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2. Recommend indoor environmental quality training requirements for school district or private employees who are responsible for the operation and maintenance of schools.
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3. Recommend educational materials relating to indoor environmental quality in schools.
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4. Recommend model specifications for the design and construction of school facilities and for additions and structural alterations to school facilities that promote indoor environmental quality and that ensure that the building's systems are planned, designed, installed, tested, operated, and maintained to perform efficiently and to meet the school district's or private school's needs.
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(f) Upon completing its duties under
par. (e), the task force shall report its findings and recommendations to the appropriate standing committees of the legislature under
s. 13.172 (3) and to the governor. The task force shall cease to exist on the date on which the department issues its model management plan under
sub. (3).
118.075(3)
(3) Indoor environmental quality in schools model management plan. By the first day of the 12th month beginning after the month in which the task force submits its report under
sub. (2) (f), the department shall establish a model management plan and practices for maintaining indoor environmental quality in public and private schools. In developing the plan and practices, the department shall consider the recommendations of the task force.
118.075(4)(a)(a) By the first day of the 3rd month beginning after the month in which the department establishes the model management plan and practices under
sub. (3), each school board shall provide for the development of a plan for maintaining indoor environmental quality in its schools.
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(b) By the first day of the 12th month beginning after the month in which the department establishes the model management plan and practices under
sub. (3), each school board shall implement a plan for maintaining indoor environmental quality in its schools.
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(c) Each school board shall provide a copy of the plan implemented under
par. (b) to any person upon request.
118.075 History
History: 2009 a. 96;
2011 a. 32.
118.076
118.076
Lifesaving skills instruction. 118.076(2)
(2) Beginning in the 2011-12 school year, each school board operating high school grades, the operator of each charter school established under
s. 118.40 (2r) that operates high school grades, and the governing body of each private school that operates high school grades shall do all of the following:
118.076(2)(a)
(a) Offer instruction in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiocerebral resuscitation to pupils enrolled in the high school grades in the school district, charter school, or private school. The school board, operator of the charter school, or governing body of the private school shall use either of the following, and shall incorporate into the instruction the psychomotor skills necessary to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiocerebral resuscitation:
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1. An instructional program developed by the American Red Cross or the American Heart Association.
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2. Nationally recognized, evidence-based guidelines for cardiopulmonary resuscitation and cardiocerebral resuscitation.
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(b) Provide instruction about automated external defibrillators to pupils enrolled in the high school grades in the school district, charter school, or private school.
118.076 History
History: 2009 a. 273.
118.08
118.08
School zones; crossings. 118.08(1)
(1) On any street or highway which borders the grounds of any public, private, or tribal 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.
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(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.
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(2) If the governing body of any town, city or village by ordinance regulates the operation and parking of motor vehicles on off-highway public school premises, school drives or parking lots or pedestrian traffic on any such drives or parking lots, the school board may enter into written agreements with such governing body for reimbursement of the cost of enforcing such ordinance.
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(3) Nothing in this section shall preclude the governing body of any town, city or village from repealing ordinances regulating the operation or parking of motor vehicles on off-highway public school premises, drives or parking lots or regulating pedestrian traffic on such drives or parking lots without prior consent of a school board which requested enactment of such ordinance.
118.105 History
History: 1975 c. 251.
118.11
118.11
School fences. The school district shall erect and maintain all the fence necessary to enclose the school site or grounds without any financial burden on the holders of adjoining properties.
118.12
118.12
Sale of goods and services at schools. 118.12(1)(a)(a) Except as provided under
par. (b), any person may sell or promote the sale of goods or services on school district or cooperative educational service agency property.
118.12(1)(b)
(b) A school board may adopt written resolutions governing the sale and promotion of goods and services on school district property. The board of control of a cooperative educational service agency may adopt written resolutions governing the sale and promotion of goods and services on agency property. The resolutions may prohibit, restrict or provide guidelines for such sales and promotions.
118.12(2)(a)(a) No school district employee may receive for his or her personal benefit anything of value from any person other than his or her employing school district to sell, promote the sale of or act as an agent or solicitor for the sale of any goods or services to any public school pupil while on the property of his or her employing school district or at an activity of his or her employing school district.
118.12(2)(b)
(b) No cooperative educational service agency employee may receive for his or her personal benefit anything of value from any person other than his or her employing agency to sell, promote the sale of or act as an agent or solicitor for the sale of any goods or services to any public school pupil while on the property or at an activity of his or her employing agency or while on the property or at an activity of a school district in the agency.
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(3) Any person violating
sub. (2) is subject to a forfeiture of not more than $200 for each offense.
118.12(4)
(4) If a school board enters into a contract that grants to one vendor the exclusive right to sell soft drinks in one or more schools of the school district, the contract may not prohibit the sale of milk in any school and, to the maximum extent possible, the school board shall ensure that milk is available to pupils in each school covered by the contract.
118.12(5)
(5) If a school board contracts with a person to provide photographs of 12th grade pupils for a school yearbook, the contract may not prohibit a pupil from supplying his or her own photograph for the yearbook, subject to the school board's reasonable specifications.
118.123
118.123
Reports and records; forfeitures. 118.123(1)
(1) Any officer or teacher who fails or neglects to make the reports or who fails to keep the records required by
chs. 115 to
121 shall forfeit not less than $5 nor more than $25 for each such failure or neglect.
118.123(2)
(2) If any person designated in
chs. 115 to
121 to prosecute an action for a forfeiture or neglect of duty fails to prosecute the action within 10 days after being requested in writing by an elector of the school district to do so, any elector of the school district may prosecute the action.
118.123 History
History: 1979 c. 89,
301;
1985 a. 214 s.
1; Stats. 1985 s. 118.123.
118.125(1)(a)
(a) "Behavioral records" means those pupil records that include psychological tests, personality evaluations, records of conversations, any written statement relating specifically to an individual pupil's behavior, tests relating specifically to achievement or measurement of ability, the pupil's physical health records other than his or her immunization records or any lead screening records required under
s. 254.162, law enforcement officers' records obtained under
s. 48.396 (1) or
938.396 (1) (b) 2. or
(c) 3., and any other pupil records that are not progress records.
118.125(1)(b)
(b) "Directory data" means those pupil records which include the pupil's name, address, telephone listing, date and place of birth, major field of study, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, weight and height of members of athletic teams, dates of attendance, photographs, degrees and awards received and the name of the school most recently previously attended by the pupil.
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(bL) "Law enforcement unit" means any individual, office, department, division, or other component of a school district that is authorized or designated by the school board to do any of the following:
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1. Enforce any law or ordinance, or refer to the appropriate authorities a matter for enforcement of any law or ordinance, against any person other than the school district.
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2. Maintain the physical security and safety of a public school.
