Sentences with phrase «sparsity aid»

Assembly Bill 824, (pictured above) authored by Rep. Jeff Mursau (R - Crivitz) and Sen. Tom Tiffany (R - Hazelhurst), adjusts sparsity aid eligibility to allow the Crivitz and Spring Valley school districts to continue to receive sparsity aid payments this year, without reducing sparsity aid payments to any other qualifying district.

This new law also permanently raises the current 725 pupil cap on school district membership for sparsity aid eligibility to 745 pupils, beginning in the 2016 - 17 school year.

The task force put forward a number of prudent ideas, including increasing sparsity aid to rural districts and creating a student loan forgiveness program for new teachers who choose to teach in rural Wisconsin.

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These 144 school districts (comprising roughly 34 percent of Wisconsin's 422 school districts) qualified for sparsity aid based on having a membership of 745 or fewer students and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile of the district's geographic area.

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Legislature Recesses Until January; Hopes Dim for Action on Sparsity Aid, Relief for Low - Revenue Districts

Currently, the Sparsity Aid Program aims to offset the challenges faced by the smallest, most rural school districts in the state through providing $ 300 in per - pupil funding for districts with enrollments of 745 or less and a density of less than 10 pupils per square mile.

A record 144 small, rural Wisconsin school districts have received a total of $ 18.5 million in sparsity aid payments for the 2017 - 18 school year.

I am disappointed that neither revenue limit relief for low - spending districts nor an increase / expansion of sparsity aid were included in the final budget.

Governor Scott Walker is visiting schools in Wausaukee, Cadott, and Belmont today to announce his support for new legislation to increase Sparsity Aid for rural schools, an idea he championed earlier this year.

Since the 2008 - 09 school year, the state has provided additional funding for small, rural districts outside of their revenue limits through sparsity aid, as a way to lessen certain challenges experienced by rural districts with both a small pupil membership and a sparsely populated area.

Increases to sparsity aid and the low revenue ceiling were in my budgets, and I am pleased to see them considered after the governor's veto cast doubt on their future,» Evers said.

The JFC plan nixes the governor's proposal to add $ 20 million to expand sparsity aid, is designed to help rural districts.

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Governor Walker said the proposed $ 200 increase in per pupil aid matches what Dr. Tony Evers, the newly re-elected state superintendent, asked for and does not include sparsity aid that will be given to rural school districts.

Delete $ 100 increase per pupil in sparsity aid, and instead provide $ 100 per pupil for districts with between 745 - 1,000 students.

Under the bill, the appropriation for sparsity aid would be increased by $ 6.5 million in 2019.

Low Revenue Ceiling and Sparsity Aid.

Sparsity aid was vetoed by the governor in the 2017 - 19 state budget, but he has said he supports the provisions now.