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Curriculum committee endorses DPI waiver to use Waunakee laude class rank for Wisconsin Guarantee
Summary
The Waunakee Community School District curriculum committee voted Feb. 24 to endorse a Department of Public Instruction waiver request to submit the district's laude-based class ranking, rather than straight GPA, for the Wisconsin Guarantee preferred-admission lists; the endorsement moves the item to a full-board hearing and DPI review.
The Waunakee Community School District Curriculum Committee on Feb. 24 voted to endorse a waiver request to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to submit the district's laude-based class ranking in place of straight grade-point average when sending top-5 and top-10 percent lists under the Wisconsin Guarantee.
District curriculum director Tim Shale told the committee the Wisconsin Guarantee is established in state statute and requires high schools to submit ranked lists of their top students; many University of Wisconsin campuses extend preferred admission to students in the top 10% of a school's class and UW–Madison extends a preferred option for the…
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