Wisconsin 2023-2024 Regular Session

Wisconsin Assembly Bill AB190 Compare Versions

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3	3	2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
4	4	2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 190
5	5	April 20, 2023 - Introduced by JOINT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. Referred to Committee
6	6	on Education.
7	7	*AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE*
8	8	AN ACT to create 115.385 (1h) of the statutes; relating to: school and school
9	9	district accountability report for a consolidated school district.
10	10	Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
11	11	This bill is explained in the NOTES provided by the Joint Legislative Council in
12	12	the bill.
13	13	The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
14	14	enact as follows:
15	15	JOINT LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL PREFATORY NOTE: This draft was prepared for the Joint
16	16	Legislative Council's Study Committee on Shared School District Services.
17	17	Current law requires the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to annually
18	18	publish accountability reports, or “report cards” for individual schools and school
19	19	districts. Report cards are issued for all public schools and school districts in Wisconsin.
20	20	Current law requires DPI to factor certain measures of a school's performance or district's
21	21	improvement into the report cards. Additionally, the report cards must include an index
22	22	system that creates five performance categories and assigns each school and school
23	23	district to one of the categories. Under DPI's current accountability formula for the report
24	24	cards, DPI needs at least two consecutive school years of performance data to calculate
25	25	a school district's improvement score and performance category. Under current law, on
26	26	the effective date of consolidation, the school districts that were consolidated cease to
27	27	exist. Therefore, a newly consolidated school district does not have enough performance
28	28	data for DPI to measure the consolidated school district's improvement. Under the
29	29	current framework, DPI assigns a newly consolidated school district a placeholder of
30	30	“N/A” on its report card until DPI has enough data to determine the consolidated school
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34	34	ASSEMBLY BILL 190
35	35	district's improvement or assign a performance category for the consolidated school
36	36	district.
37	37	The bill specifies that DPI may not determine a consolidated school district's
38	38	improvement, identify the consolidated school district's level of improvement, or assign
39	39	the consolidated school district a performance category for the school year in which the
40	40	consolidation takes effect and the subsequent two school years. Instead, in the report
41	41	cards published for the school year in which the consolidation takes effect and the
42	42	subsequent 2 school years, DPI must include: (1) the following statement: “Due to recent
43	43	consolidation, necessary data is not available for this school district.”; (2) the first school
44	44	year for which a performance category will be assigned to the consolidated school district;
45	45	and (3) the performance category assigned to each affected school district for the school
46	46	year before the consolidation took effect.
47	47	SECTION 1. 115.385 (1h) of the statutes is created to read:
48	48	115.385 (1h) For a school district consolidated under s. 117.08 or 117.09, all of
49	49	the following apply to the accountability reports published for the school year in
50	50	which the school district consolidation takes effect and the subsequent 2 school
51	51	years:
52	52	(a) The department may not determine the consolidated school district's
53	53	improvement under sub. (1) (a).
54	54	(b) The department may not identify the consolidated school district's level of
55	55	improvement or assign the consolidated school district to a performance category
56	56	under sub. (1) (b).
57	57	(c) In place of a performance category under sub. (1) (b), the department shall
58	58	include all of the following:
59	59	1. The following statement: “Due to recent consolidation, necessary data is not
60	60	available for this school district.”
61	61	2. The first school year for which a performance category will be assigned to the
62	62	consolidated school district.
63	63	3. The performance category assigned to each affected school district, as
64	64	defined in s. 117.03 (1) (c), for the school year before the consolidation took effect.
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