What’s in the Choice Handbook?
With the expansion of school choice state-wide, and the ever-increasing regulations and complicated processes and procedures required to participate in Choice, we issued a second edition of the Choice Handbook. You can order the latest edition by clicking the button to the right.
Modeled after the WCRIS Legal Handbook, the WCRIS Choice Handbook provides, in laymen’s terms, information and policies about the state’s Choice programs that school leaders have asked for.
Among many other things, the WCRIS Choice Handbook includes:
- Explanations of the process for joining a Choice program;
- The unique issues schools face and how they tackle those challenges;
- Accounting requirements and audits;
- The process for school accountability measures;
- A discussion of the religious opt-out provision and parent volunteering;
- Information on tuition charges; and
- Many tips learned by veteran school administrators who are in a Choice program.
The Handbook also provides checklists, a calendar of important dates by program for the coming year, template letters to Choice parents, a glossary, links to online forms and references to the statutes and official rules behind the program.
More About the WCRIS Choice Handbook
The 80-page Handbook is professionally bound with a sturdy cover and is available to WCRIS member schools for only $50 plus shipping and handling. Non-members pay $250 plus shipping and handling. This is a print-only publication and will not be available digitally.
To order your copy, fill out this order form. You can send it us via mail or email. You can also pay with your credit card over the phone by calling WCRIS at (608) 287-1224.
At the request of our member schools across the state, WCRIS created the first-ever Choice Handbook in 2018.
Now, with the help of school administrators, accountants and attorneys, WCRIS has tackled that problem for the benefit of its member schools and compiled key Parental Choice Program information all in one place.
