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Board holds public hearing, then approves DPI waiver to use local 'Laude' ranking for Wisconsin Guarantee
Summary
The board held a required public hearing and voted to submit a waiver to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction allowing the district to report its local Laude-based student ranking, rather than a pure GPA ranking, for the Wisconsin Guarantee program.
The Waunakee Community School District held a public hearing and voted to submit a waiver to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) to use the district's existing Laude ranking system when reporting its top students for the Wisconsin Guarantee preferred-admission program.
Tim (district staff member) explained that the Wisconsin Guarantee requires high schools to report ranked lists of their top 5% and top 10% of juniors to the University of Wisconsin system so campuses can extend preferred admissions offers. The…
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