Date of enactment:
2023 Senate Bill 917 Date of publication*:
2023 WISCONSIN ACT
AN ACT to renumber and amend 115.28 (7g) (b); to amend 118.19 (3) (a); and to create 115.28 (7g) (b) 1. to 3.
and 118.19 (19) of the statutes; relating to: student teaching requirement for teacher preparatory programs and grant-
ing rule−making authority.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in
senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 115.28 (7g) (b) of the statutes is renum-
bered 115.28 (7g) (b) (intro.) and amended to read:
115.28 (7g) (b) (intro.) Beginning in the 2013−14
school year, the department shall use the system devel-
oped under par. (a) 3. to annually report for each program
identified in par. (a) 1. the passage rate on first attempt of
students and graduates of the program on examinations
administered for licensure under sub. (7) and any other
information required to be reported under par. (a) 1.
Beginning in the 2025−26 school year, the department
shall separately report the information required under
this paragraph for each of the following groups:
SECTION 2. 115.28 (7g) (b) 1. to 3. of the statutes are
created to read:
115.28 (7g) (b) 1. All students and graduates of a pro-
gram.
2. Students and graduates of a program who com-
pleted one semester of student teaching.
3. Students and graduates of a program who com-
pleted more than one semester of student teaching.
SECTION 3. 118.19 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended
to read:
118.19 (3) (a) No license to teach in any public school
may be issued unless the applicant possesses a bachelor’s
degree including such professional training as the depart-
ment by rule requires, except as permitted under par. (b)
and ss. 115.28 (17) (a), 118.191, 118.1915, 118.192,
118.193, 118.194, and 118.197. Notwithstanding s.
36.11 (16), no teacher preparatory program in this state
may be approved by the state superintendent under s.
115.28 (7) (a), unless each student in the program is
required to complete student teaching consisting of full
days for a at least one but not more than 4 full semester
semesters following the daily schedule and semester cal-
endar of the cooperating school or the equivalent, as
determined by the state superintendent. If a teacher
preparatory program requires more than one semester of
student teaching, the state superintendent may approve
the teacher preparatory program only if the institution of
higher education that offers the teacher preparatory pro-
gram awards general education credits to a student for the
2nd, 3rd, and 4th full semesters of student teaching that
the student completes. No license to teach in any public
school may be granted to an applicant who completed a
professional training program outside this state unless the
applicant completed student teaching consisting of full
days for a full semester following the daily schedule and
semester calendar of the cooperating school or the equiv-
alent, as determined by the state superintendent. The
state superintendent may grant exceptions to the student
* Section 991.11, WISCONSIN STATUTES: Effective date of acts. “Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor’s
partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication.” − 2 −2023 Wisconsin Act 2023 Senate Bill 917
teaching requirements under this paragraph when the
midyear calendars of the institution offering the teacher
preparatory program and the cooperating school differ
from each other and would prevent students from attend-
ing classes at the institution in accordance with the insti-
tution’s calendar. The state superintendent shall promul-
gate rules to implement this subsection. If for the purpose
of granting a license to teach or for approving a teacher
preparatory program the state superintendent requires
that an institution of higher education be accredited, the
state superintendent shall accept accreditation by a
regional or national institutional accrediting agency rec-
ognized by the U.S. department of education or by a pro-
grammatic accrediting organization.
SECTION 4. 118.19 (19) of the statutes is created to
read:
118.19 (19) The department shall establish, by rule,
a teacher apprenticeship program for students participat-
ing in a teacher preparatory program in this state that
requires students to complete student teaching consisting
of full days for at least 2 but not more than 4 full semesters
following the daily schedule and semester calendar of the
cooperating school or the equivalent, as determined by
the state superintendent. The department shall include all
of the following in the teacher apprenticeship program
established under this subsection:
(a) Conditions under which an individual may serve
as a teacher apprentice.
(b) Requirements for the supervision and evaluation
of teacher apprentices, including a requirement that
teacher apprentices are supervised by licensed teachers
or licensed administrators.
(c) A process for teacher apprentices to register with
the department and a requirement that each teacher
apprentice be registered before performing duties as a
teacher apprentice.
(d) Criteria and a process for the suspension or revo-
cation of registrations issued to registered teacher
apprentices.
(e) A requirement that each individual commencing
a teacher apprenticeship enter into an apprentice contract
under s. 106.01.