Statewide Voucher Program Enrollment Counts
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 27, 2015
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has announced enrollment information related to private school voucher students in the statewide Wisconsin Parental Choice Program (WPCP).
For more information, please see the DPI news release here.
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School Law Update: Strategies for Rehiring Annuitants
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 27, 2015
From the Legal Side…
In response to numerous comments, questions and concerns from the field about the recently-enacted “double dipping” statute, the Boardman & Clark law firm has published this School Law Update that briefly summarizes the statute and offers solutions for districts looking to fill open positions with retired teachers. 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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Wisconsin Graduation Rate Among Tops in Nation
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 27, 2015
In a press release today, the Department of Public Instruction announced that preliminary data from the U.S. Department of Education shows Wisconsin’s 2014 public school graduation rate (88.6 percent) is among the highest in the nation.
Wisconsin ranked third nationwide; tied with New Jersey. Iowa was first with a graduation rate of 90.5 percent, followed by Nebraska at 89.7 percent. The preliminary data also show that 36 states, including Wisconsin, saw increases in their overall four-year graduation rates, while six states had declines and another eight states had no change since 2012-13. Wisconsin’s 2014 graduation rate was six-tenths of a point higher than the prior year.
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SAA, WASB File Amicus Brief
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 20, 2015
In a “Friend of the Court” brief filed with the State Supreme Court last Thursday, the School Administrators Alliance (SAA) and the Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) requested that the Court hold 2011 Wisconsin Act 21 unconstitutional and affirm the decision of the Court of Appeals in Coyne v. Walker.
WASB and SAA were joined in this important endeavor by the Wisconsin Retired Educators’ Association (WREA), the Wisconsin Rural Schools Alliance (WiRSA), the Southeast Wisconsin Schools Alliance (SWSA), Disability Rights Wisconsin (DRW), Wisconsin PTA, and Professor Julie Underwood.
For more background information on this important case, please see here. The full documents are linked below.
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DPI Certifies Aid to Districts
By Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance staff | October 15, 2015
As required by state statute on Oct. 15 of each year, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is providing the certified amount each school district will receive from the general state aid appropriation, which is $4.476 billion for the 2015-16 school year.
For more information, please see the DPI news release here.
Tables that show the 2015-16 General Aid Certification for the state’s 424 public school districts can be found here.
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