MAPA FORUM : “A Bridge to Better Performance Evaluations: It Starts with Us!” When: 2:00 – 4:00pm | February 23, 2017 Where: St. Mathias Parish School, 9300 W. Beloit Rd, Milwaukee, WI What: Speaker Kathryn Weber, PHR, SHRM-CP will address preparing for an evaluation, successful tools to use and the delivery. The delivery component will focus [...]
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State Budget Debate Begins This Week
February 09, 2017
Gov. Scott Walker released his budget plan late Wednesday afternoon, which will launch a four month debate over K-12 education in Wisconsin, as the legislature responds to the Governor’s proposal and makes changes of their own before a final budget bill gets passed in June. Capitol watchers are predicting that the opponents of equity in education [...]
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It’s Tax Time
January 12, 2017
Tax Day is coming up on April 18, 2017. Don’t forget to claim your private school tuition tax deduction! There is a silver lining to this dreaded deadline for private school parents. Thanks to advocacy by WCRIS, state law allows Wisconsin parents to deduct private school tuition on their taxes. This is the third year [...]
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ESSA Equitable Services Non-Regulatory Guidance
January 03, 2017
The first webinar on December 20, 2016 was cancelled due to technical difficulties. The US DOE has rescheduled this session for January 10, 2017. If you signed up for one of these webinars before December 29, 2016 you MUST re-register. Register to participate in one of two, FREE webinars hosted by the Office of Non-Public [...]
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New Life For Learning
December 19, 2016 • Sponsored Content
Seton Catholic Schools, a WCRIS partner, was featured in the Milwaukee Journal on Saturday. Read below about how they are changing what private education looks like in Wisconsin and how their model is gaining national attention. The article: In the not-too-distant past, teachers at St. Catherine Catholic School in Milwaukee ran their classrooms much as [...]
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The ESSA & Private Schools
December 08, 2016
Identify what you have. Use this school year to review your current Title I program: Determine which services are offered by your district/s. Which students are receiving those services? Are services being administered efficiently? Is the LEA following all provisions of the consultation process? Discuss any potential improvements among your school community and with the [...]
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New Overtime Rule On Hold
December 08, 2016
The Department of Labor’s new overtime rule that would have required paying non-teaching staff overtime unless they met annual salary limits has been put on hold by a federal judge. The rule sought to update the overtime regulation of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and was a major initiative of the Obama Administration. The rule, [...]
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Creating a Professional Development Plan?
December 05, 2016 • Sponsored Content
New educators and teachers licensed after 2004 must complete Professional Development Plans in order to obtain either their Wisconsin Initial Educators License or to renew their Professional Educators License. Currently, there are two online service providers of PDP software which include WECAN and QEI. However, as of June 2017, WECAN is discontinuing their online PDP [...]
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Equitable Busing Fight for WCRIS School Kids Goes Public
November 17, 2016
The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty (WILL) filed a notice Wednesday with the Milwaukee Public School Board and its Superintendent on behalf of a WCRIS school seeking equitable transportation for its students. The WILL letter puts MPS on notice of St. Joan Antida High School’s claim for transportation on behalf of 70 of their [...]
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Wisconsin’s School Wars Don’t Work
November 01, 2016
Sharon Schmeling, WCRIS Executive Director, wrote an op-ed that was featured recently in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (MJS), the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram, the La Crosse Tribune and the Chippewa Herald. You can find the MJS article online here. Here’s the article: Is Wisconsin well-served by efforts to force children to attend schools that their parents [...]
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