Reports of alleged critical incidents in schools have been sweeping the nation. Fifteen false incidents have been called in at Wisconsin schools, according to a report from the Wisconsin Department of Justice Office of School Safety (OSS). Law enforcement agencies have labeled the practice as “swatting,” where a report of a false incident is made to provoke [...]
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State Reduces Stockpile: From Bags to Pillows
October 27, 2022
Non-profit organizations, including private schools, are invited to request surplus supplies, according to a recent memo from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS). DHS is “inviting health care organizations, local and tribal health departments, nonprofits, and government agencies to fill out a statewide survey to request surplus supplies from the DHS Warehouse. Items available range [...]
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Local Dog Comforts Texas School
October 27, 2022
A Janesville couple from the congregation that supports St. John Vianney Catholic School, a WCRIS member, made it their mission to serve the grieving city of Uvalde, Texas. In the aftermath of the Uvalde school shooting, they drove their certified therapy dog to one of the city’s only private schools to comfort students and the [...]
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Lunch & Learns: Announcing December’s Webinar
October 27, 2022
Thank you to all who joined us yesterday at our School Safety webinar! If you missed it, watch the recording here. December’s installment of our Lunch & Learn webinar series will be “Navigating the Special Needs Scholarship Program (SNSP),” presented by staff from the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty on December 7. The webinar will benefit schools [...]
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Student Loan Forgiveness Application Open
October 27, 2022
In case you or your teachers missed it, the application for the federal student loan forgiveness program is now available. Even though the program is on a temporary pause because of a court order, U.S. Department of Education officials are still encouraging borrowers to apply, indicating that the pause is only temporary. The application can [...]
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WCRIS in the News: Private School Contributions
October 20, 2022
The contributions of WCRIS schools to the state’s education infrastructure will be touted to influential readers this month, as lawmakers and policy experts see ads in a prominent resource for political insiders. Madison’s nonpartisan news service WisPolitics, which focuses on state policy making and is read by everyone in the Capitol and surrounding quarters, published a [...]
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Reading Aloud Aids Learning Loss
October 20, 2022
Reading aloud can help students recover from the academic fallout of the COVID pandemic, according to 2019 WCRIS Leadership Conference keynote speaker Meghan Cox Gurdon’s recent article in the Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Current studies reveal that reading aloud to students helps them make up months of reading progress in a short amount of time, from preschool [...]
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Highlights from Capitol Hill
October 20, 2022
Check out what the Council for American Private Education (CAPE) has been doing, according to their recent edition of Outlook: Tax-Exempt Status Questioned In Maryland and California courts this August, it was decided that private schools with a tax-exempt status must comply with Title IX regulations. The decision hinged on the argument that tax-exempt status financially benefits [...]
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School Choice Numbers Increase
October 20, 2022
Enrollment has grown by 3,295 students in the four parental choice programs, according to recent numbers released by the DPI. The Third Friday in September enrollment count totals 52,189 students in the choice programs in 373 schools. The upward trend comes at no surprise since choice participation was already increasing and was only catalyzed by the [...]
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Lunch & Learn Webinars
October 20, 2022
November’s Lunch & Learn webinar, “Getting Ready for the Choice Program,” has been rescheduled to Wednesday, November 2. It was previously slated for November 16. We apologize for the inconvenience. Those who had registered before the date was rescheduled received an email with updated information. October’s School Safety webinar is at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October [...]
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