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Bills · 2021-2022 Regular Session

SB 965

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Relating to: high-performing charter schools authorized by school boards. (FE)

School School — Board School — Building

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Senate, not reached
  3. Passes Assembly, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, a school board, the Office of Educational Opportunity in the

UW System (OEO), the City of Milwaukee, the chancellor of an institution in the UW

System, a technical college district board, the county executive of Waukesha County,

the college of Menominee Nation, and the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwa community

college may contract with a person to operate a charter school. Those entities are

commonly referred to as charter school authorizers.

This bill provides that a contract to operate a charter school between a school

board and a charter school governing board must allow the governing board to open

additional charter schools if all of the charter schools operated by the governing

board are in one of the top two performance categories on the Department of Public

Instruction's most recent school and school district accountability report.

Current law requires that a contract between a charter school governing body

and an authorizer other than a school board or the OEO must include such a

provision.

What it would cost

Fiscal estimates filed by state agencies, as official PDFs

Sponsors

Introduced by: Darling (R) , Roth (R) , Stroebel (R) , Wanggaard (R)

11 cosponsors

Brandtjen (R) , Dittrich (R) , Knodl (R) , Macco (R) , Magnafici (R) , Murphy (R) , Rozar (R) , Steffen (R) , Thiesfeldt (R) , Wichgers (R) , Wittke (R)

Votes

Senate: Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 4, Noes 3

Passed 4–3 Mar 4, 2022 official source full page

No individual roll call was recorded for this vote. Committee votes and some older sessions record totals only.

Full history

  1. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Introduced by Senators Darling, Roth, Stroebel and Wanggaard; cosponsored by Representatives Wittke, Thiesfeldt, Dittrich, Brandtjen, Knodl, Macco, Magnafici, Murphy and Rozar

  2. Feb 9, 2022 · Senate

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Feb 11, 2022 · Senate

    Representative Wichgers added as a cosponsor

  4. Feb 17, 2022 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  5. Feb 22, 2022 · Senate

    Representative Steffen added as a cosponsor

  6. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Fiscal estimate received

  7. Feb 23, 2022 · Senate

    Public hearing held

  8. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Executive action taken

  9. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Report passage recommended by Committee on Education, Ayes 4, Noes 3

  10. Mar 4, 2022 · Senate

    Available for scheduling

  11. Mar 15, 2022 · Senate

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1