Wendy Greenfield of St. Lucas WELS Lutheran School in Milwaukee will be representing private schools on a special legislative study committee on school data.
Every two years, the Wisconsin state legislature convenes Special Legislative Council Study Committees to review important issues that legislative leaders want explored in anticipation of drafting legislation for the upcoming legislative session.
This year, the Legislature is convening eight special study committees. The School Data Committee is charged with reviewing all student data gathered by the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) and the data security measures that protect student privacy. The committee will study whether the data is required by federal law, state statute, or administrative rule and the purposes for which the data is utilized, and consider developing legislation to limit the types of student data collected by DPI and to improve the security of that data.
The committee has 15 members, including four state Assembly representatives; two state Senators; and nine public representatives. It will meet three to six times for the better part of a day during the summer and into the Fall. Their recommendations will be forwarded to legislative leaders who will determine how, when and if the recommendations will be proposed as legislation in the new legislative session that begins in January.
Greenfield is the Director of Advancement at Saint Lucas, a Bayview neighborhood school that is in the Wisconsin and Milwaukee Parental Choice Programs and has been in operation since 1872.
WCRIS Staff will be monitoring the work of the committee and will keep WCRIS members apprised of its progress and any proposed legislation that will impact WCRIS schools.
