Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Public Instruction
Chapter PI 49 - Special Needs Scholarship Program
Section PI 49.16 - Summer school attendance and payment

Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง PI 49.16

Current through February 26, 2024

(1) DEFINITION. In this section, "academic purposes" means summer school learning experiences that are related to 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 the first weekday in May, a school shall file with the department a list 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 school may count any of the following as instruction for academic purposes:

(a) Music programs, lessons, sections, or clinics.

(b) Swimming instruction programs, if taught or directed by a teacher at the site of the instruction.

(c) 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.

(4) PUPIL ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS. A school may include a pupil in its summer school report if the pupil was a special needs scholarship program pupil on a count date during the school year immediately preceding the summer school instruction.

(5) REPORT. A school counting pupils for special needs scholarship program summer school payment purposes shall file a summer school report with the department listing the special needs scholarship 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.

(6) CHOICE PAYMENT. A school may not receive a summer school payment under ss. 118.60(4m) or 119.23(4m), Stats., and a summer school payment under s. 115.7915(4p), Stats., for the same pupil in the same school year.

A summer school report form may be obtained at no charge from the Wisconsin department of public instructions website at http://dpi.wi.gov/sms/special-needs-scholarship.

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