SB 735

Under current law, the Department of Public Instruction must provide

trainings to school districts and independent charter schools on three specific

evidence-based strategies to address student mental health: screening, brief

interventions, and referral to treatment; trauma sensitive schools; and youth mental

health first aid. This bill adds social and emotional learning to the list of

evidence-based strategies on which DPI must provide trainings to school districts

and independent charter schools. The bill also provides an additional $500,000 to

DPI for these trainings in each of the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years.

The bill also provides additional funding for the University of Wisconsin

System under its general program operations appropriation and for special

education aid for school districts, independent charter schools, cooperative

educational service agencies, and county children with disabilities education boards

for purposes of maintaining compliance with maintenance of effort requirements of

the federal Consolidated Appropriations Act and the federal American Rescue Plan

Act.