Sun Prairie staff will ask board to seek DPI waiver defining tie-breaking for Wisconsin Act 95

Sun Prairie Area School District administrators said they will ask the school board on March 10 to approve filing a waiver with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction that would allow the district to use a set of tie-breaking criteria when assigning Act 95 “top 5%” and “top 10%” transcript notations.

The request is intended to address uncertainty about how districts should resolve ties and how to apply rounding after the Wisconsin Guaranteed Admission Law (Act 95) went into effect. Dr. Kurt Mould, director of digital media, innovation and strategy, summarized the law at a staff presentation: "Act 95 or the Wisconsin Guaranteed Admission Law was signed into law and it established that the Board of Regents at the University of Wisconsin system must establish a guaranteed admission program that would directly admit students in the top 5% to the University of Wisconsin Madison and students in the top 10% of their class to any of the other UW system colleges or universities based solely…