The busy holiday season is upon us. To help keep you on schedule, WCRIS compiled a list of upcoming deadlines for your school: January 1: School Safety Plan Submission is due to the Office of School Safety. January 10: Intent to Participate and registration forms for the Milwaukee, Racine and Wisconsin Parental Choice Programs for the 2023-24 school year [...]
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Current Events
A library of WCRIS weekly E-letters that keeps you updated on issues of concern to private schools
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WCRIS Schools: The Answer to Families’ Prayers
November 10, 2022
New state lawmakers will have to be educated about the parental choice programs in preparation for the two-year legislative session that begins in January. As WCRIS staff busies itself meeting with the new and returning lawmakers, here is a series of videos, courtesy of the Badger Institute, that tells inspiring stories of families’ experiences at [...]
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Private Schools and the Nation’s Report Card
November 10, 2022
By now, you’ve well heard about the abysmal student test scores that were recently released in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Wisconsin has the shameful distinction of having the largest gap of any state between black and white students in fourth grade. You also saw our Current Events story last week reporting how Catholic school [...]
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Welcome HOPE Christian Schools!
November 03, 2022
Please join us in welcoming HOPE Christian Schools to the WCRIS family! HOPE operates a system of six, K-8 schools in Milwaukee and Racine. Because of HOPE’s success, the schools’ educational reform contributor, Open Sky Education, has recently been named a semifinalist for a national education competition. They have already received a $200,000 award and have a [...]
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Suicide Prevention Grants
November 03, 2022
Grants for existing peer-to-peer suicide prevention programs or implementation of such programs are available from the DPI. Private high schools (schools that offer any grades between 9 and 12) are eligible. This is the second round of funding for this grant. Applications are due December 9. Learn more here.
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Local Dog Comforts Texas School
October 27, 2022
A Janesville couple from the congregation that supports St. John Vianney Catholic School, a WCRIS member, made it their mission to serve the grieving city of Uvalde, Texas. In the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting, they drove their certified therapy dog to one of the city’s only private schools to comfort students and the [...]
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Student Loan Forgiveness Application Open
October 27, 2022
In case you or your teachers missed it, the application for the federal student loan forgiveness program is now available. Even though the program is on a temporary pause because of a court order, U.S. Department of Education officials are still encouraging borrowers to apply, indicating that the pause is only temporary. The application can [...]
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Reading Aloud Aids Learning Loss
October 20, 2022
Reading aloud can help students recover from the academic fallout of the COVID pandemic, according to 2019 WCRIS Leadership Conference keynote speaker Meghan Cox Gurdon’s recent article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Current studies reveal that reading aloud to students helps them make up months of reading progress in a short amount of time, from preschool [...]
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Principal Question: Child Find in the IDEA; Flier for Parents
October 13, 2022
Question: I want my school district to provide special education services to some of my students. Where do I start? Answer: Eligible private school students with disabilities can have some services provided to them by the public school district under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The IDEA was created to ensure that students with disabilities receive [...]
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First Amendment Writing and Cartoon Contest
October 13, 2022
Engage your history or civics class by having them enter the Wisconsin Newspaper Association’s Civics Games Editorial Writing & Cartoon Contest. Participants are asked to submit their own original essay or cartoon (or one of each) that illustrates the importance of the First Amendment. The contest is open to all Wisconsin middle and high schoolers. The deadline [...]
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