Sun Prairie to leave Dane County Schools Consortium; board asked to allow affirmative dissolution vote

Sun Prairie Area School District officials told the school board on April 14 that the district will withdraw from the Dane County Schools Consortium on June 30, 2025, and asked the board to authorize district staff to vote affirmatively to dissolve the consortium if the consortium’s member districts hold a dissolution vote before that date.

Dr. Sarah Chaiaklardi, director of secondary teaching, learning and equity, presented the report to the board as part of the superintendent’s consent agenda and said the district is pursuing withdrawal because of recent operational challenges within the consortium and a loss of fiscal-agency support. “We are seeking your authority to be able to vote affirmatively to dissolve the consortium should a vote be held by the consortium prior to our withdraw,” she said.

The consortium was formed after an intergovernmental agreement executed in spring 2019 to…