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Ellis Introduces School Choice Trailer Bill
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 1, 2011
Sen. Mike Ellis is the lead sponsor on a bipartisan bill to close down future expansion of the Choice Program into school districts outside of Milwaukee and Racine. The Ellis proposal SB 174 would prohibit any school district which has not already qualified for the program from qualifying after the effective date of the bill. So far, only Racine has qualified and will be opening its Choice Program this week.
Language was put into the biennial budget (Act 32) to allow creation of parental choice programs for eligible school districts, which were defined as a district located in whole or in part in a city of the second class eligible to receive state aid as a high-poverty school district and satisfied other requirements related to equalized value per member and shared cost per member. Participation in the program was limited to residents with a family income not exceeding 300% of the poverty level.
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