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2023 - 2024 LEGISLATURE
2023 SENATE BILL 498
October 16, 2023 - Introduced by Senators L ARSON, SMITH, ROYS, AGARD,
HESSELBEIN, SPREITZER, L. JOHNSON, CARPENTER and PFAFF, cosponsored by
Representatives SHELTON, JOERS, C. ANDERSON, CLANCY, JACOBSON, MYERS,
SHANKLAND, MADISON, CABRERA, CONLEY, CONSIDINE, EMERSON, PALMERI,
RATCLIFF, SINICKI, SNODGRASS, SUBECK, BARE, STUBBS, MOORE OMOKUNDE, J.
ANDERSON and NEUBAUER. Referred to Committee on Education.
AN ACT to amend 119.04 (1); and to create 20.255 (2) (ch) and 115.422 of the
statutes; relating to: grants to encourage individuals to pursue a career in
teaching or to facilitate teacher licensure, granting rule-making authority, and
making an appropriation.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
The bill creates a new grant program administered by the Department of Public
Instruction and available to school districts and operators of independent charter
schools to reimburse the cost of “Grow Your Own” programs. Under the bill, Grow
Your Own programs include high school clubs that encourage careers in teaching,
payment of costs associated with current staff acquiring education needed for
licensure, support for career pathways using dual enrollment, support for
partnerships focused on attracting or developing new teachers, or incentives for
paraprofessionals to gain licensure. The bill appropriates $5,000,000 in fiscal year
2024-25 for this purpose.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
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SECTION 1. 20.005 (3) (schedule) of the statutes: at the appropriate place, insert
the following amounts for the purposes indicated:
2023-24 2024-25
20.255 Public instruction, department of
(2) AIDS FOR LOCAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING
(ch)Grow your own programs;
teacher pipeline capacity build
ing GPR A -0- 5,000,000
SECTION 2. 20.255 (2) (ch) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (2) (ch) Grow your own programs; teacher pipeline capacity building.
The amounts in the schedule for grants under s. 115.422 to school districts and
operators of a charter school under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x).
SECTION 3. 115.422 of the statutes is created to read:
115.422 Grow your own programs; teacher pipeline capacity building.
(1) In this section, “grow your own program” means a program to encourage
individuals to pursue a career in teaching or to facilitate teacher licensure. “Grow
your own program” includes high school clubs that encourage careers in teaching,
payment of costs associated with current staff acquiring education needed for
licensure, support for career pathways using dual enrollment, support for
partnerships focused on attracting or developing new teachers, or incentives for
paraprofessionals to gain licensure.
(2) Beginning in the 2024-25 school year, from the appropriation under s.
20.255 (2) (ch), the department shall award grants to a school district or the operator
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of a charter school under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x) to reimburse the school district or
charter school for costs associated with grow your own programs.
(3) The department shall promulgate rules to implement and administer this
section, including criteria for awarding a grant.
SECTION 4. 119.04 (1) of the statutes, as affected by Wisconsin Act 12, is
amended to read:
119.04 (1) Subchapters IV, V and VII of ch. 115, ch. 121 and ss. 66.0235 (3) (c),
66.0603 (1m) to (3), 115.01 (1) and (2), 115.28, 115.31, 115.33, 115.34, 115.343,
115.345, 115.363, 115.364, 115.365 (3), 115.366, 115.367, 115.38 (2), 115.415, 115.422,
115.445, 118.001 to 118.04, 118.045, 118.06, 118.07, 118.075, 118.076, 118.10, 118.12,
118.124, 118.125 to 118.14, 118.145 (4), 118.15, 118.153, 118.16, 118.162, 118.163,
118.164, 118.18, 118.19, 118.196, 118.20, 118.223, 118.225, 118.24 (1), (2) (c) to (f), (6),
(8), and (10), 118.245, 118.25, 118.255, 118.258, 118.291, 118.292, 118.293, 118.2935,
118.30 to 118.43, 118.46, 118.50, 118.51, 118.52, 118.53, 118.55, 118.56, 120.12 (2m),
(4m), (5), and (15) to (27), 120.125, 120.13 (1), (2) (b) to (g), (3), (14), (17) to (19), (26),
(34), (35), (37), (37m), and (38), 120.137, 120.14, 120.20, 120.21 (3), and 120.25 are
applicable to a 1st class city school district and board but not, unless explicitly
provided in this chapter or in the terms of a contract, to the commissioner or to any
school transferred to an opportunity schools and partnership program.
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