DOA:......Kretschmann, BB0336 - Educators Rising
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
Educators rising; grant
This bill requires DPI to create a competitive request-for-proposal process to award a grant to an entity for the purpose of subsidizing cocurricular opportunities for public school pupils that encourage those pupils to pursue a career in teaching. Under the bill, to be eligible for this grant, an entity must demonstrate to DPI that it has successfully supported this type of cocurricular opportunities in public schools in this state.
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 (1) (er) of the statutes is created to read:
20.255 (1) (er) Educators Rising; grants for local chapters. The amounts in the schedule for grants under s. 115.407.
****Note: This Section involves a change in an appropriation that must be reflected in the revised schedule in s. 20.005, stats.
Section 2. 115.407 of the statutes is created to read:
115.407 Grants to support local programming; career pathway to teaching. (1) (a) The department shall develop a competitive request-for-proposal process for the award of a grant to an entity for the purpose of subsidizing cocurricular opportunities provided to public school pupils in grades 6 to 12 that encourage pupils to pursue a career in teaching elementary and secondary grades.
(b) The department shall accept applications from entities responding to the request-for-proposal under par. (a) and shall, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (1) (er), award a grant to an entity that satisfies the requirements under sub. (2).
(2) To be eligible for a grant under this section, an entity shall demonstrate that it has successfully supported cocurricular opportunities in public schools in this state to encourage pupils to pursue a career in teaching elementary and secondary grades.
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