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Governor Signs SB-95 and SB-196
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | December 13, 2011
Senate Bill 95 – School Mandate Relief
Governor Walker signed Senate Bill 95 into law as 2011 2011 Wisconsin Act 105 on Wednesday, December 7th. Act 105 is an omnibus measure 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. 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 and passage.
Senate Bill 196 –Collaborative Purchasing With Municipalities
Senate Bill 196 was signed into law by Governor Walker as 2011 Wisconsin Act 106 on Wednesday, December 7th. Act 106 excludes from the calculation of expenditure restraint payments expenditures made pursuant to a purchasing agreement with a school, thereby encouraging purchasing collaboration between municipalities and school districts. SAA members and staff worked with the authors, Senator Luther Olsen (R-Ripon) and Representative Jerry Petrowski (R-Marathon), on development of the bill.
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