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Board directs superintendent to seek DPI waiver after Riverside Elementary tornado cost 12.5 hours of instruction
Summary
The D C Everest Area School District board on June 17 voted unanimously to direct the superintendent to apply to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for a waiver of minimum instructional hours after a tornado on April 17, 2026 cost Riverside Elementary 12.5 hours of instruction.
The D C Everest Area School District Board of Education voted unanimously on June 17 to direct the superintendent or a designee to apply to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) for a waiver of the statutory minimum hours of instruction for the 2025–26 school year.
The resolution cites a tornado that struck Riverside Elementary and the surrounding neighborhood on April 17, 2026, and states the event resulted in 12.5 hours of lost instructional time. Board member Katie Felch moved the resolution; Board member Lindsey Lewitzke seconded. The motion passed on a roll call vote, 7–0. The board had held the statutorily required public hearing on the waiver prior to the vote; no members of the public spoke during that hearing.
The resolution expressly references Wis. Stat. §118.38(1) and §121.02(1)(f) as the statutory bases for requesting a waiver and directs district administration to prepare and submit the waiver request and the reasons for it to DPI. The board’s action is limited to authorizing the application; any decision on the waiver rests with DPI.
The item appears in the meeting record as the public hearing (no speakers) and the formal resolution text and roll call vote recorded later in the meeting. The board will notify DPI through the superintendent’s office as directed in the resolution.
