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Sun Prairie administrators recommend waiver and ordered tie-breakers for Wisconsin Act 95 guaranteed-admission
Summary
District leaders recommended the Board approve a waiver and adopt ordered tie-breaking criteria (credits, AP/dual credits, then ACT) to determine which students qualify for guaranteed admission under Wisconsin Act 95; the Board will consider the waiver on July 14 and final approval by the Department of Public Instruction is required.
Superintendent Brad Saron and Dr. Kurt Mould of the Sun Prairie Area School District urged the Board of Education to approve a waiver and adopt ordered tie-breaking criteria to implement Wisconsin Act 95the law requiring the University of Wisconsin System to guarantee admission for the top 5% and 10% of each high school class by GPA.
"This Act 95 is an imperfect law that has come to school districts across the state of Wisconsin, all 420 school districts across the state of Wisconsin, to narrow students in ways that public schools were never intended to do," Superintendent Brad Saron said as he introduced the administration's recommendation.
Mould told the board the district had revised its prior policy after July 2024 guidance from the Wisconsin School Administrators Alliance and the Department of Public Instruction clarified that…
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