Wis. Admin. Code Department of Public Instruction PI 35.08

Current through November 25, 2024
Section PI 35.08 - Summer school attendance and payment
(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:
(am) Music programs, lessons, sections, or clinics.
(bm) Swimming instruction programs, if taught or directed by a teacher at the site of the instruction.
(cm) 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 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.
(5) REPORT. A school counting pupils for choice summer school payment purposes shall file a summer school report with the department, using the online application system or other manner specified by the department, listing the choice program pupils who attended summer school and the number of days the pupils attended.
(6) PAYMENT. A school may not receive a summer school payment under s. 118.60(4m) or 115.7915(4p), Stats., and a summer school payment under s. 119.23(4m), Stats., for the same pupil in the same school year.

Wis. Admin. Code Department of Public Instruction PI 35.08

Adopted by, CR 16-004: cr. Register July 2016 No. 727, eff. 8/1/2016
Amended by, CR 19-120: am. (1), (2), renum. (3) (a) (intro.), 1., 2., 3. to (3) (intro.), (am), (bm), (cm) and, as renum., am. (3) (intro.), (bm), r. (3) (b), renum. (4) (intro.) to (4) and am., r. (4) (a), (b), am. (5), cr. (6) Register May 2020 No. 773, eff. 6/1/2020

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.