WisconsinScholarship schools would follow students’ education plans
Wisconsin scholarship schools would follow each participating child’s most recent education plan and provide implementation records if the child’s resident school board asks.
What it does
Private schools in the scholarship program would follow a participating child’s most recent education plan.
If the child’s resident school board requests them, the private school would provide records about how it carries out the child’s education plan within five days.
Argument forUsing a child’s most recent education plan could help a private school provide support that reflects the child’s needs.
Argument againstSchools may have little time to gather a child’s plan records when the resident school board requests them.
More detail
A participating private school would implement the child’s most recent education plan. This applies to a child with a disability attending a private school through the Special Needs Scholarship Program. This would first apply in the 2026–27 school year.
A participating private school would provide records about how it implements the child’s plan. The records concern a child with a disability attending the private school through the scholarship program. The resident school board must request the records. The school would have five days from receiving the request to provide the records.
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Where it stands
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2026
- Apr 21Representative McCarville added as a coauthorLatest
- Mar 25Fiscal estimate receivedMinor
- Mar 23Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1Major
- Mar 19Representative Subeck added as a coauthor
- Mar 13Read first time and referred to Committee on EducationMinor
- Mar 13Introduced by Representatives Hong, Clancy, Sheehan, Neubauer, Andraca, Bare, DeSanto, DeSmidt, Fitzgerald, Hysell, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Mayadev, Miresse, Moore Omokunde, Palmeri, Sinicki, Snodgrass, Spaude, Stroud, Tenorio and Udell; cosponsored by Senators Larson, Hesselbein, Dassler-Alfheim, Carpenter, Habush Sinykin, L. Johnson, Keyeski, Ratcliff and SpreitzerIntroduced
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