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Board reviews federal shutdown impacts, state bills and WASB legislative agenda
Summary
Board members received a legislative update on the federal government shutdown's likely effects on district funding, state-level bills under consideration by the Assembly Education Committee, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's guidance on school meals and reporting, and the Wisconsin Association of School Boards' call for feedback on
Board member Lisa Pugh delivered a legislative update to the Stoughton Area School District Board of Education on district-level effects of recent state and federal actions.
Pugh said the federal government entered a shutdown just after midnight Oct. 1 and summarized guidance from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, saying, “DPI will remain in operation during the federal government shutdown.” She told the board that most federal education funds already granted to districts should continue to be drawn down, and that DPI expects to be able to pay September child-nutrition claims while awaiting direction from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The nut graf: The update matters because school funding and program operations — notably school meal reimbursements and certain federal grants — may be affected in the near term, and state-level bills could change district obligations…
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