Wisconsin legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
Wisconsin SB32: An Act to amend 118.24 (1), 119.44 (2) (c) and 121.085 (1); to create 120.18 (1) (h) and 121.10 of the statutes; Relating to: requiring a school board to spend at least 70 percent of its operating expenditures on direct classroom expenditures and annual pay increases for school administrators. (FE)
Status: Failed, March 23, 2026
What the bill says
To amend 118.24 (1), 119.44 (2) (c) and 121.085 (1); to create 120.18 (1) 2(h) and 121.10 of the statutes; relating to: requiring a school board to spend 3at least 70 percent of its operating expenditures on direct classroom 4expenditures and annual pay increases for school administrators. Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill requires school boards to spend a minimum amount of operating expenditures on direct classroom expenditures and limits annual compensation increases for school administrators…
From the introduced text, February 12, 2025:
to amend 118.24 (1), 119.44 (2) (c) and 121.085 (1); to create 120.18 (1) 2(h) and 121.10 of the statutes; relating to: requiring a school board to spend 3at least 70 percent of its operating expenditures on direct classroom 4expenditures and annual pay increases for school administrators. Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau This bill requires school boards to spend a minimum amount of operating expenditures on direct classroom expenditures and limits annual compensation increases for school administrators. Requirement to spend 70 percent of operating expenditures on direct classroom costs The bill requires each school board to spend at least 70 percent of its operating expenditures in each school year on direct classroom expenditures. Under the bill, "direct classroom expenditures" are expenditures for salaries and benefits of teachers and teacher aides, instructional supplies, tuition, athletic programs, and cocurricular activities. Under the bill, if a school board fails to meet the 70 percent threshold in any school year, the school board must increase the amount spent on direct classroom expenditures by at least 2 percent in each succeeding school year until the 70 percent level is reached. In addition, in the school year following a school year in which a school board fails to meet the 70 percent threshold, the bill directs the Department of Public Instruction to reduce the school …