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Recap of Senate Education Committee Hearing
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | August 17, 2017
The Senate Committee on Education held a public hearing on Thursday, August 17th on the bills listed below. The SAA supported three of the bills, testifying on one of them, as noted below.
Assembly Bill 280. Relating to: incorporating financial literacy into the curriculum of public schools. SAA is neutral on the bill. SAA and WASB worked with the authors to ensure a “soft” requirement that we believe that most if not all districts already meet.
Assembly Bill 71. Relating to: an inventory of pupil data. SAA took no position on the bill.
Assembly Bill 72. Relating to: responsibilities of state superintendent related to privacy and security of pupil data. SAA took no position on the bill.
Senate Bill 105. Relating to: creating a pilot program under which certain school districts are not required to provide a minimum number of hours of direct pupil instruction. SAA testified in support of the bill. The SAA testimony includes some “comments” on the bill. Check it out.
Senate Bill 253. Relating to: prohibiting aiding and abetting sexual abuse. The SAA registered in support of this bill.
Senate Bill 299. Relating to: an initial teaching license based on completion of a Montessori teacher education program. The SAA took no position on this bill.
Senate Bill 301. Relating to: summer school and interim session classes. The SAA registered in support of this bill.
If you should have any comments/questions regarding the SAA’s positioning on any of these bills, please do not hesitate to call the SAA office.
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