Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
Foster Elementary leaders outlined student achievement gains and proposed priorities for a five-year charter renewal, including exploring a full-day 4K via a DPI expansion grant. Board members pressed for clearer contract language requiring board approval of any expansion and questioned a 150-student termination threshold.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
FCLA leaders told the board the half-day, project-based program at Appleton North has recovered enrollment since Covid, aims to expand toward 125 students and will apply for a 20% growth expansion grant; students described shadow days and strong community bonds.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
District staff proposed consolidating early-entrance policies for kindergarten and first grade (policy 4.21) with a standardized screening process, consistent assessments and an appeals path to the board for superior-case decisions.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
District staff recommended closing most special-education program spots to incoming out-of-district open-enrollment applicants citing workload-capacity and program ceilings; the board approved the recommendation by roll call.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
Greg Hartjes, superintendent for the Appleton Area School District, says state and local tax burdens have fallen as a share of personal income and used two homeowner examples to show local tax changes. He projects an April referendum would raise the example Grand Chute bill by $75 next year.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
Superintendent Greg Hartjes said three factors explain recent school property-tax increases: a 7.9% revenue-limit rise not matched by state aid, a 12.1% jump in payments to Catholic and Lutheran schools via the state's voucher program (about $9.3 million), and local reassessments in places such as Grand Chute.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
The Appleton Area School District Board approved the final $25 million issuance tied to the 2022 referendum, accepted a superintendent consent agenda including new hires, and adopted two policy updates; the board also accepted an OE-7 monitoring report with one noncompliant technology indicator.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
During review of OE-7 (Asset Protection), district technology staff described security efforts but one indicator (7.4.0.3) was judged noncompliant and will require remediation and follow-up reporting.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
District staff described a multi-part transition plan to move Columbus students to Edison, including Safe Routes planning, student orientation activities, a family event, and a link-crew peer program; administration reported early enrollment survey results and set a transition-team meeting for May 7.
Wisconsin / School Districts / Appleton Area School District
District legal counsel advised pausing policy 411.4 after a federal court vacated the 2024 Title IX regulations; the board voted to adopt language reverting to the 2020 Title IX framework and rely on existing nondiscrimination policies.