April 2017
The Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee removed 83 items from the Governor’s proposed 2017-19 budget, including two initiatives that would have affected private schools:
- Deleting a required minimum hours of teaching in public, private charter and voucher schools. This policy would have a made Wisconsin the only state without a minimum requirement for hours of instruction.
- Requiring private voucher schools to conduct a criminal background check on all teachers every five years.
Now, if these efforts are to become law, they will have to be passed as stand-alone legislation.
Via Current Events, WCRIS will keep you posted if these ideas wind through the legislature.
