Section 35.08. Summer school attendance and payment.

 

(1)   Definition. In this section, “academic purposes" means summer school learning experiences that are related or similar to instruction the school offers during the regular school term or for which credit toward graduation is given.

(2)   List of classes. Annually by May 1, a school shall submit the list to the department of academic summer school classes and laboratory periods that the school will provide in the following summer. The department shall annually review the list to ensure the classes are for academic purposes.

(3)   Program requirements.

(a) To be eligible to receive a choice program summer school payment, a school shall offer no fewer than 19 summer days of instruction during the summer. Each summer day of instruction offered by the school shall be comprised of no fewer than 270 minutes of instruction for academic purposes. A school may count any of the following as instruction for academic purposes:

1. Music programs, lessons, sections, or clinics.

2. Swimming instruction programs, if taught or directed on the school site.

3. Field trips if accompanied by a teacher and if all pupils have equal access to the field trips regardless of a pupil's ability to pay.

(b) A school may not count any of the following as instruction for academic purposes:

1. Travel time to events, including field trips.

2. Performances, including band, orchestra, choir, parade, and theatrical performances.

3. Recreational programs and team sports.

4. Participation in fairs or expositions by career and technical student organizations.

5. Classes taught by a teacher that is funded through Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.

6. Any offering not provided or directed by a teacher.

(4)   Pupil attendance requirements. A school may include a pupil in its summer school report if all of the following apply:

(a) The pupil was in the choice program on the second Friday in January during the school term immediately preceding the summer for which the school seeks payment, or the school has accepted the pupil's choice program application for the school term immediately following that summer.

(b) The pupil attends summer school instruction for academic purposes for at least 15 days.

(5)   Report. Annually by October 1 immediately following summer school, a school counting pupils for choice summer school payment purposes shall submit to the department a summer school report listing the choice program pupils who attended summer school and the number of days the pupils attended. The school shall report this information on a form provided by the department.

CR 16-004 : cr. Register July 2016 No. 727 , eff. 8-1-16.

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A summer school report form may be obtained at no charge from the Wisconsin department of public instruction's website at http://dpi.wi.gov/sms/choice-programs . Microsoft Windows NT 6.1.7601 Service Pack 1