DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0337 - Career and Technical Education Student Organizations
For 2025-2027 Budget -- Not Ready For Introduction
An Act ...; relating to: the budget.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
EDUCATION
Primary and secondary education
Career and technical student organizations; grants
Under current law, DPI must maintain a career and technical student organizations (CTSO) team that consists of six consultants, each of whom is assigned an educational area. Specifically, DPI’s CTSO team must have a consultant in agriculture education, business education, technology education, family and consumer sciences education, marketing education, and health science education. Under the bill, DPI must annually identify one CTSO for each of these educational areas and distribute state funding to each identified CTSO based on the number of pupils who were members of the CTSO in the previous school year.
For further information see the state fiscal estimate, which will be printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. 20.255 (3) (ct) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (3) (ct) Career and technical student organizations; grants. The amounts in the schedule for grants to career and technical student organizations under s. 115.28 (30) (f).
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2. 115.28 (30) (e) of the statutes is created to read:
115.28 (30) (e) Annually, identify one career and technical student organization for each education subject listed in par. (b).
Section 3. 115.28 (30) (f) of the statutes is created to read:
115.28 (30) (f) Annually, distribute to each career and technical student organization identified under par. (e) an amount determined as follows:
1. Determine the total number of pupils who were members of the career and technical student organizations identified under par. (e) in the previous school year.
2. For each career and technical student organization, divide the number of pupils who were members of that career and technical student organization in the previous school year by the total determined under subd. 1.
3. Multiply the quotient under subd. 2. by the amount appropriated under s. 20.255 (3) (ct) for the current fiscal year.
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