- The identification of comprehensive support and improvement schools by reason of not exiting from additional targeted support and improvement status that was to take place in 2024-25 will instead take place in 2025-26.
- The identification of additional comprehensive support and improvement schools that was to take place in 2021-22 will instead take place in 2022-23.
- Exclude 2019-20 from counting toward the number of years by which a school must meet the state’s exit criteria in order to leave either comprehensive support and improvement status or additional targeted support and improvement status.
The State Educational Agency (SEA) is inviting the public and interested LEAs to comment in the manner provided below.
Summary of Waiver Request
A problem that cannot be resolved via the state plan addendum is the lack of sufficient data to identify in Fall 2021 schools for targeted support and improvement (TSI). TSI identifications based on one or more subgroups in a school consistently underperforming is required annually by Section 1111 (d)(2) of the ESSA. With no assessment data from 2019-20 or summary report card scores for 2020-21 under the terms of the Wisconsin state plan addendum, it will be impossible to make up-to-date identifications. The WDPI has already carried over TSI school identifications for a year, from 2019-20 into 2020-21, following the suspension of 2019-20 assessments and does not find it would be useful to school improvement efforts to carry over those identifications into a third year.
For these reasons, the WDPI is requesting that for the 2021-22 school year, the requirement under Section 1111 (d)(2) requirement to make annual TSI identifications be waived. No schools would be identified as TSI schools in 2021-22.
As required under ESEA section 8401(b)(3)(A), the SEA must provide the public and interested LEAs notice and a reasonable opportunity to comment in the manner in which the SEA customarily provides similar notice and opportunity to comment to the public.
Further Information and Location for Providing Written Comments
The Department’s state plan addendum and application for waiver authority is available to review at
Public comment on the application described above may be submitted by using the Department’s form for submitting comment at https://forms.gle/CXttnq8SgzdaKBqG6. Questions or additional comment may be accepted by using the contact information below. Written comments should be submitted no later than noon on Friday, December 11, 2020, in order to receive consideration. Agency Contact Person
Samuel Bohrod
Assistant Director, Office of Educational Accountability Division for Student and School Success
Department of Public Instruction 125 South Webster Street
P.O. Box 7841
Madison, WI 53707-7841
