Bills · 2015-2016 Regular Session
Relating to: ending the statewide parental choice program. (FE)
Parochial and private schools School — Attendance
- Introduced, stopped here
- Passes Assembly, not reached
- Passes Senate, not reached
- Governor signs, not reached
- Law, not reached
Unfamiliar terms? Glossary
What this bill does
Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau
This bill phases out the statewide parental choice program.
Under this bill, beginning in the 2016-17 school year, no pupil may attend a
private school under the statewide parental choice program unless the pupil was
attending the private school under the statewide parental choice program in the
2015-16 school year. Also under the bill, beginning in the 2016-17 school year, no
private school participating in the statewide parental choice program or the Racine
parental choice program may accept a pupil who resides in a school district other
than the Racine Unified School District or the Milwaukee Public School District
unless the pupil attended that private school under the statewide parental choice
program in the 2015-16 school year. In other words, no pupil may enter the
statewide parental choice program after the 2015-16 school year. This limitation
effectively ends the statewide parental choice program when all of the pupils who
attended a private school under the statewide parental choice program during the
2015-16 school year have exited the program.
What it would cost
Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs