Board staff provided a legislative update on several K–12 bills moving through the state legislature and potentially headed to the governor’s desk.

Lisa summarized that both houses had expected final floor sessions, with multiple education bills on calendars. Items highlighted included bills to grant access to federally chartered youth organizations (for example, Scouts or Boys & Girls Clubs), a WIAA open‑records proposal, changes to academic excellence scholarship and technical education grant rules, and a bill introducing parental notification when a pupil is removed from a classroom or when alleged misconduct by a staff member is reported.

Lisa drew particular attention to a proposed numeracy bill that would require school boards to develop and implement numeracy screening and intervention plans for kindergarten through eighth grade to identify pupils at risk of not meeting grade‑level mathematics. She said the proposed numeracy language was modeled on prior literacy (Act 20) language and would create a parallel framework for math. The update also mentioned a proposal to create a council on dual enrollment and credit transfer, and that some bills were expected to pass along party lines in the Assembly.

Board members asked whether the district already uses evidence‑based numeracy screeners; district staff said they do use screeners similar to literacy tools and that staff would provide more details to the board if the bill advances.

Lisa concluded by reminding the board that the school boards association legislative agenda has been approved and will guide advocacy priorities such as local school board authority, opposing unfunded mandates, staffing shortages, shared services, and school safety funding.