Appleton Schools Lawsuit Goes to State Supreme Court
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | November 21, 2016
Check out the article from the Appleton Post Crescent on the Appleton case that is very important to school districts and other units of local government throughout Wisconsin.
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Evers Faces Challenge for Re-election
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | November 21, 2016
Tony Evers faces re-election to the State Superintendent post amid big GOP wins and the decline of Teacher union membership. Check out the interesting article from Molly Beck of the Wisconsin State Journal.
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Most Schools and Districts Meet or Exceed Expectations on 2015-16 Report Cards
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | November 17, 2016
More than 82 percent of public schools and 91 percent of districts earned three or more stars on the state’s 2015-16 report cards, meaning they met or exceeded expectations for educating students. Another 227 schools in the state’s three private parental choice programs submitted accountability data to the Department of Public Instruction but did not have scores or ratings because report cards require more than one year of data.
Additional information is available in the Department of Public Instruction news release here.
Access to school and district report cards is online here.
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School Law Newsletter: Supreme Court To Hear Open Meetings Case, WERC Announces Revised CPI-U
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | November 17, 2016
From the Legal Side…
The Boardman & Clark law firm recently published this School Law Newsletter. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has agreed to hear a an open meetings case that will be of great interest to school districts. The newsletter also discusses the WERC revision of the CPI-U for bargaining agreements beginning January 1, 2017
The SAA regularly receives these updates and we believe this is valuable information for SAA members. We are distributing this update to SAA members with the permission of Boardman & Clark.
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Nygren, Darling Back As JFC Co-Chairs
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | November 16, 2016
From WisPolitics.com . . .
Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, and Sen. Alberta Darling, R-River Hills, will be back next session as the co-chairs of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee.
Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, announced Darling’s appointment last week. Nygren’s been all but assured of coming back to the spot. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, R-Rochester, made it official today.
“I have every confidence in John’s ability to lead this important committee,” Vos said in a news release. “He has done an outstanding job ushering through three balanced state budgets, two as JFC co-chair. His record of success and steadfast commitment to taxpayers make him the obvious choice for this position.”
Fitzgerald decided to keep his same slate of Senate GOP members of the committee, but a Vos spokeswoman said yesterday that it’s too early to announce his remaining appointments.
Darling said last week Republicans have been focused on finding ways to “spend less, and use what we have instead of asking for more.”
“Last session, the budget contained no new sales or income taxes, simplified the tax code, and had the lowest bonding levels in 20 years,” Darling said. “Wisconsin’s pension is fully funded. And according to the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance, our state has the lowest property tax burden since 1946. That’s a record I’m proud of, and I’m looking forward to doing more.”
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