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SAA Mandate Relief Bill Moves to the Governor’s Desk
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | November 4, 2011
Early this morning, the Assembly concurred in the Senate’s passage of Senate Bill 95 after lengthy debate by a margin of 54-38. The SAA worked closely with the bill’s authors, Senator Luther Olsen (R-Ripon) and Representative Steve Kestell (R-Elkhart Lake), on the bill’s development. SB 95 is an omnibus bill featuring 10 separate items of mandate relief, clarification and added flexibility relating to the following: granting high school credit for extracurricular sports; services provided by a special education program; transportation aid paid to school districts; the use of moneys received by a school district from the common school fund; using the results of standardized examinations to evaluate, discharge, suspend, or discipline a teacher or for the nonrenewal of a teacher’s contract; the number of teaching days scheduled in the Milwaukee Public Schools; permitting a school district to limit the grades in which to reduce class size under the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education Program; permitting a school board to deny enrollment to a pupil who has been expelled from an out-of-state school or from an independent charter school in this state and permitting an independent charter school to expel a pupil; use of law enforcement records to take disciplinary action against a pupil under a school district’s athletic code; and changing the date by which a school district must certify the amount of its property tax levy.
The SAA has been seeking passage of several of the items in this bill for the past 8 years or more. For those SAA members seeking full distribution of school transportation aid, additional SAGE flexibility, additional flexibility in use of the common school fund aid, the ability to use federal special education aid for contracted special education services, flexibility in granting credit for sports, and a later levy certification date, this day has been a long time coming.
SB 95 has now passed both houses and now moves on to the Governor’s desk where we anticipate it will be signed into law. The SAA will keep the membership informed of any further developments regarding this important bill.
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