121.14 State aid for summer classes and interim session classes.

(1)

(a) State aid shall be paid to each district or county children with disabilities education board for all of the following:

1. Subject to par. (b), those academic summer classes or laboratory periods that are for necessary academic purposes, as defined by the state superintendent by rule.

2. Subject to par. (b), for a school district or county children with disabilities education board that provides year-round school, those interim session classes or laboratory periods that are for necessary academic purposes, as defined by the state superintendent by rule.

3. Those online classes offered as summer classes or interim session classes to high school pupils and pupils in grade 7 or 8 who reside in the school district, or who are attending the online class in the school district under s. 118.51, provided a pupil enrolled in a high school grade receives a credit for the class, a pupil enrolled in the 7th or 8th grade successfully completes the class, and the school board of the school district determines the online class fulfills a requirement for high school graduation specified under s. 118.33 (1) (a) 1. or 2. or established by the school board under s. 118.33 (1) (am) or the authority of the department.

(b) Recreational programs and team sports shall not be eligible for aid under this section, and pupils participating in such programs shall not be counted as pupils enrolled under s. 121.004 (5) nor shall costs associated with such programs be included in shared costs under s. 121.07 (6).

(2)

(a) State aid for summer classes, laboratory periods, or interim session classes under sub. (1) shall be incorporated into the state aid paid for regular classes under this subchapter.

(b) Annually on or before October 1, the school district clerk or chairperson of the county children with disabilities education board shall file with the department a report stating the summer average daily membership equivalent.

(3) References to county children with disabilities education boards under subs. (1) and (2) (b) do not apply beginning on the effective date of a resolution adopted under s. 115.817 (9) (c).

History: 1973 c. 89, 90, 243, 333; 1975 c. 39; 1977 c. 29; 1983 a. 27; 1983 a. 189 s. 329 (17m); 1995 a. 27 s. 9145 (1); 1997 a. 27, 164, 240; 1999 a. 32; 2013 a. 257; 2017 a. 151.