119.10 Meetings of the board.
119.12 Board; general provisions.
119.13 Board members; refusal of salary.
119.19 Released time for religious instruction.
119.22 Sex discrimination in physical education or physical training prohibited.
119.23 Milwaukee parental choice program.
119.235 Contracts with private schools and agencies.
119.24 Admission of pupils.
119.25 Expulsion of pupils.
119.26 Partial annexation of school district.
119.315 Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics pilot programs for pupils in grades kindergarten to 5.
119.32 Superintendent of schools; business manager.
119.33 Superintendent of schools opportunity schools and partnership program.
119.36 Dismissal of superintendent of schools.
119.46 Taxes for school operations fund.
119.47 Taxes for school extension fund.
119.48 Taxes for school construction fund.
119.485 Taxes for state trust fund loans.
119.495 Borrowing on promissory notes; 1989 to 1993.
119.496 Borrowing on promissory notes; 1992 to 1995.
119.498 Promissory notes; unfunded prior service liability contributions.
119.499 Borrowing; unfunded prior service liability.
119.50 Disbursement of moneys.
119.55 Youth service centers, truancy abatement and burglary suppression.
119.66 Interest in contracts forbidden.
119.68 Claims against the city or board.
119.70 Use of school buildings and grounds for civic purposes.
119.71 Five-year-old kindergarten programs.
119.73 Kindergarten programs.
119.74 Extended-day elementary grade, 4-year-old kindergarten and alcohol and other drug abuse programs.
119.75 First grade programs.
119.78 Family resource center.
119.82 Alternative educational programs for learnfare pupils.
SUBCHAPTER II
FIRST CLASS CITY OPPORTUNITY
SCHOOLS AND PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM
119.9001 Commissioner of opportunity schools and partnership program; general provisions.
119.9002 Commissioner; duties.
119.9003 Commissioner; powers.
119.9004 Opportunity schools and partnership program.
119.9005 Payments to the commissioner, persons, and private schools operating schools in the opportunity schools and partnership program; state aid adjustments.
Ch. 119 Cross-reference
Cross-reference: See definitions in s.
115.001.
FIRST CLASS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
119.01
119.01
Applicability. This chapter applies only to cities of the 1st class.
119.02
119.02
Definitions. In this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
119.02(1)
(1) “Board" means the board of school directors in charge of the public schools of a city of the 1st class other than those public schools transferred to the opportunity schools and partnership programs under s.
119.33 or subch.
II.
119.02(2)
(2) “City" means a city of the 1st class.
119.02(2g)
(2g) “Commissioner" means the individual in charge of the opportunity schools and partnership program under subch.
II.
119.02(3)
(3) “Members-elect" of a body at a particular time are those members who have been duly elected or appointed for a current regular or unexpired term and whose service has not terminated by death, resignation or removal from office.
119.02(4)
(4) “Opportunity schools and partnership program" means the program under s.
119.33 or the program under subch.
II.
119.02 History
History: 2015 a. 55.
119.04
119.04
Public instruction laws applicable. 119.04(1)(1)
Subchapters
IV,
V and
VII of ch. 115, ch.
121 and ss.
66.0235 (3) (c),
66.0603 (1m) to
(3),
115.01 (1) and
(2),
115.28,
115.31,
115.33,
115.34,
115.343,
115.345,
115.363,
115.364,
115.365 (3),
115.366,
115.367,
115.38 (2),
115.415,
115.445,
118.001 to
118.04,
118.045,
118.06,
118.07,
118.075,
118.076,
118.10,
118.12,
118.124,
118.125 to
118.14,
118.145 (4),
118.15,
118.153,
118.16,
118.162,
118.163,
118.164,
118.18,
118.19,
118.196,
118.20,
118.223,
118.225,
118.24 (1),
(2) (c) to
(f),
(6),
(8), and
(10),
118.245,
118.25,
118.255,
118.258,
118.291,
118.292,
118.293,
118.2935,
118.30 to
118.43,
118.46,
118.50,
118.51,
118.52,
118.53,
118.55,
118.56,
118.58,
120.12 (2m),
(4m),
(5), and
(15) to
(27),
120.125,
120.13 (1),
(2) (b) to
(g),
(3),
(14),
(17) to
(19),
(26),
(34),
(35),
(37),
(37m), and
(38),
120.137,
120.14,
120.20,
120.21 (3), and
120.25 are applicable to a 1st class city school district and board but not, unless explicitly provided in this chapter or in the terms of a contract, to the commissioner or to any school transferred to an opportunity schools and partnership program.
119.04(2)
(2) The board shall exercise the powers, perform the functions and be entitled to all school aid under sub.
(1) insofar as the same are relevant to cities of the 1st class. The board and the schools in cities of the 1st class shall be governed in all matters by the general laws of the state, except as altered or modified by express amendments.
119.04 History
History: 1971 c. 152 s.
38;
1971 c. 154 s.
80;
1973 c. 89 s.
20 (1);
1973 c. 90;
1973 c. 188 s.
6;
1973 c. 243,
254,
290,
307,
333;
1975 c. 39,
41,
95,
220,
379,
395,
422;
1977 c. 29;
1977 c. 203 s.
106;
1977 c. 206,
284,
447;
1979 c. 20;
1979 c. 34 s.
2102 (43) (a);
1979 c. 221,
298,
331;
1979 c. 346 s.
15;
1979 c. 355;
1981 c. 59;
1981 c. 241 s.
4;
1983 a. 193;
1983 a. 339 s.
10;
1983 a. 374 s.
12;
1983 a. 412,
489,
538;
1985 a. 29 s.
3202 (43);
1985 a. 56 s.
43;
1985 a. 214 s.
4;
1985 a. 225,
332;
1987 a. 27,
187,
285,
386,
403;
1989 a. 31,
120,
121,
122,
201,
209,
359;
1991 a. 39,
42,
189,
269;
1993 a. 16,
334,
377,
491;
1995 a. 27,
225;
1997 a. 27,
77,
113,
240,
252,
335;
1999 a. 9,
32,
73;
1999 a. 150 ss.
631,
672;
1999 a. 186;
2005 a. 99,
290,
346;
2007 a. 20,
97,
220,
222;
2009 a. 28,
60,
96,
215,
273,
305,
309;
2011 a. 10,
32,
85,
157,
166,
172;
2013 a. 20,
336;
2015 a. 55,
92;
2017 a. 59,
143,
364,
366;
2019 a. 83;
2021 a. 210,
238;
2023 a. 12,
95.
119.06
119.06
Initial establishment of board. 119.06(1)(1)
Members of a school board in existence in a city immediately prior to the date on which such city becomes a city of the 1st class shall continue to hold office and shall exercise all of the rights and privileges and discharge the duties of members of the board until their successors appointed under sub.
(2) are appointed and qualified.
119.06(2)
(2) Within 120 days after the date on which a city becomes a 1st class city, the mayor, the city treasurer, the city comptroller, the city attorney and the president of the common council of that city, acting as a commission for the city, shall meet and appoint a board of one at-large member and 8 members from election districts numbered and designated by the common council. The election districts shall be substantially equal in population and the boundaries of the election districts shall be drawn so as to reflect a balanced representation of citizens of all areas within the city. The person appointed to represent an election district shall reside within the boundaries of the election district as determined by the common council under this subsection.
119.06(3)
(3) The terms of members first appointed to the board by the commission shall be as follows:
119.06(3)(a)
(a) The at-large member and 4 of the combined aldermanic district members shall serve for a term beginning on the 4th Monday of the month next following their appointment and expiring on the 4th Monday in April in the 2nd year following the year in which a city becomes a city of the 1st class.
119.06(3)(b)
(b) Four of the combined aldermanic district members shall serve for a term beginning on the 4th Monday of the month next following their appointment and expiring on the 4th Monday in April in the 4th year following the year in which a city becomes a city of the 1st class.
119.06(4)(a)(a) Within 90 days after the board members appointed by the commission under sub.
(2) have taken office, the common council of the city may, by resolution adopted by a majority of its members-elect, call a special election to elect successors to the board members so appointed. Such resolution shall be introduced at a regular meeting of the common council. No action may be taken on the resolution until the next regular meeting of the common council and until the resolution has been published as a class 1 notice, under ch.
985, together with a notice of the time when the resolution will be considered by the common council.
119.06(4)(b)
(b) The board members elected at the special election shall be nominated and elected to succeed the board members appointed for the terms expiring under sub.
(3) (a) and
(b) and for the same terms. The terms of office of the board members elected at the special election shall begin on the 4th Monday following the election.
119.06(4)(c)
(c) Candidates for the board at the special election shall be nominated in the same manner as for the spring election.
119.06(4)(d)
(d) The special election shall be held at the polling places and shall be conducted in the manner of and by the election officials for the spring election.
119.06(5)
(5) The board first appointed under sub.
(2) or first elected at a special election under sub.
(4) shall hold an organizational meeting under s.
119.10 (2) on the 4th Monday of the month, or the next day if the 4th Monday is a legal holiday, following their appointment or election, and annually thereafter shall meet in accordance with s.
119.10 (2).
119.06(6)
(6) Successors to board members appointed under sub.
(3) or elected under sub.
(4) shall be elected at the spring election immediately preceding the expiration of the terms of such board members and shall serve for 4-year terms.
119.06(7)
(7) This chapter does not affect the term of office or employment of any person serving in any capacity by virtue of an appointment or contract of employment made by the school board in a city prior to the date on which a city becomes a city of the 1st class, but such person shall continue to serve in the same capacity under the board for the term for which the person was so appointed or employed, unless removed from such office or employment for the causes and in the manner provided in this chapter.
119.08
119.08
Election of board members. 119.08(1)(a)
(a) The board shall consist of one member elected at-large and 8 members elected from numbered election districts determined by the board. The election districts shall be substantially equal in population and the boundaries of the election districts shall be drawn so as to reflect a balanced representation of citizens in all areas within the city.
119.08(1)(b)
(b) Within 60 days after the common council of the city enacts an ordinance or adopts a resolution adjusting the boundaries of wards in the city following the federal decennial census under s.
5.15 (1) and
(2), the board shall, by vote of a majority of the membership of the board, adopt an election district apportionment plan for the election of board members which shall be effective until the city enacts a new ordinance under s.
62.08 (1) adjusting the boundaries of its wards under s.
5.15 (1) and
(2).
119.08(1)(c)
(c) A person elected to represent a district shall reside within the boundaries of the district, except that if a person ceases to reside within the district because the boundaries of the district are changed during the person's term of office, the person may continue to serve for the balance of the term for which he or she was elected for so long as the person resides in the school district. Before taking office, the members of the board shall take the official oath of office and file it, duly certified by the officer administering the oath, with the city clerk.
119.08(2)
(2) The electors of each election district shall elect one member residing within the election district to represent the election district. The at-large member shall be elected by the electors of the city. Board members shall be electors of the city and shall be elected at the spring election. Candidates shall file nomination papers for full terms or, when vacancies are to be filled, for unexpired terms. The primary and spring elections for board members shall be conducted by the election officials for the election of judicial or other officers held on that date. The polling places for the state, municipal or judicial election shall be the polling places for the board election and the municipal election hours shall apply.
119.08(3)
(3) The regular terms of board members shall be 4 years.
