Senate Education Committee to Hold Hearing
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 13, 2017
The Senate Committee on Education will hold a public hearing at 10 am this Thursday, September 14 in Room 300-SE, State Capitol on the following bills:
SB-329 Character Education Training Professional development training in character education for teachers, principals, and school district administrators, granting rule-making authority, and making an appropriation.
SB-382 School Employee Tuberculosis Screening Screening school district employees for tuberculosis.
SB-383 School Aid Payments The payment of state aid to school districts and payments to operators of independent charter schools and private schools participating in a choice program or the Special Needs Scholarship Program.
AB-250 Alternative Education Grants
AB-251 Modifying Rules Related to Grant Programs Administered by the Department of Public Instruction
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McCabe Enters Crowded Governor’s Race
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 13, 2017
Government reform advocate Mike McCabe has joined a crowded field of candidates in the Democratic Party primary for Wisconsin governor. Check out the coverage from Wisconsin Public Radio here.
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Washington Post: “Court Should Strike Down Wisconsin’s Gerrymandering”
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 13, 2017
I found this editorial from the Washington Post on Wisconsin’s gerrymandering court case interesting. With all that is going on currently inside the State Capitol, it has been easy to lose sight of this case. Next month, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to the 2011 redrawing of Wisconsin’s state legislative map. Check out the Post’s editorial here.
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Budget Bill Schedule
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 13, 2017
From WisPolitics.com …
The Assembly will be on the floor this afternoon to take up the state budget.
Debate is scheduled to start around noon. An email from Majority Leader Jim Steineke on Monday said leadership intends “to end no later than midnight.”
In the Senate, Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald tweeted yesterday members have been notified the chamber plans to be in at 9:30 a.m. Friday to take up the budget.
Fitzgerald told reporters after the Foxconn vote that he doesn’t currently have the 17 votes needed to pass the budget, but he’s hopeful it’ll happen by Friday.
“I think the senators want to get the budget done, and I think there’s a willingness to kind of work with leadership to make that happen,” he said.
He said he has at least 15 votes but that he hasn’t talked to every member individually about where they stand. Some members, he said, have a “mixed bag of issues” such as wanting certain transportation projects advanced or concerns about state spending increasing in the $76 billion budget.
He said he hopes Republicans can settle on a final agreement that the Assembly would take up today so the Senate can vote on it Friday.
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Senate GOP Still Short on Votes for Budget
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | September 13, 2017
Republicans in the Wisconsin Senate don’t have the votes for the state budget yet, even as the Assembly prepares to approve it Wednesday.
The GOP controls the Senate, 20-13, and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) can’t lose more than three votes on the budget vote because all Democrats are opposed to the legislation.
Check out the rest of the coverage from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel here.
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