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WI AB649

Bill

Status

Engrossed

11/19/2025

Primary Sponsor

Cindi Duchow

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Origin

State Assembly

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Appropriates $2,700,000 in fiscal year 2026 for grants to school boards that enter into whole grade sharing agreements

  • Appropriates $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2026 for additional state aid to consolidated school districts whose maximum allowable levy rate exceeds the lowest levy rate of the districts that merged

  • Appropriates $250,000 in fiscal year 2026 to reimburse school boards for costs of feasibility studies examining school district consolidation or whole grade sharing

  • Requires the Department of Public Instruction to submit a funding request to the Joint Committee on Finance by July 1, 2026 for these purposes

Legislative Description

Supplemental funding for whole grade sharing grants, supplemental state aid for consolidated school districts, grants for feasibility studies of school district consolidation or whole grade sharing, and making an appropriation. (FE)

Last Action

Read first time and referred to committee on Education

11/20/2025

Committee Referrals

Education11/20/2025
Rules11/13/2025
Education11/10/2025

Full Bill Text

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