63 Relating to: the number of mathematics and science credits required for a high school diploma.

  Date of enactment: December 11, 2013
2013 Senate Bill 51   Date of publication*: December 12, 2013

* Section 991.11, Wisconsin Statutes : Effective date of acts. "Every act and every portion of an act enacted by the legislature over the governor's partial veto which does not expressly prescribe the time when it takes effect shall take effect on the day after its date of publication."

2013 WISCONSIN ACT 63

An Act to renumber and amend 118.33 (1) (a) 1.; and to create 118.33 (1) (a) 1. e. of the statutes; relating to: the number of mathematics and science credits required for a high school diploma and high school credits for coursework in career and technical education and computer sciences.

The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:

Section 1 . 118.33 (1) (a) 1. of the statutes is renumbered 118.33 (1) (a) 1. (intro.) and amended to read:

118.33 (1) (a) 1. (intro.) In the high school grades, at all of the following:

a. At least 4 credits of English including writing composition , .

b. At least 3 credits of social studies including state and local government , 2 .

c. At least 3 credits of mathematics , 2 . The school board shall award a pupil up to one mathematics credit for successfully completing in the high school grades a course in computer sciences that the department has determined qualifies as computer sciences according to criteria established by the department. The school board shall award a pupil up to one mathematics credit for successfully completing in the high school grades a career and technical education course that the school board determines satisfies a mathematics requirement, but may not award any credit for that course if the school board awards any credit for that same course under subd. 1. d.

d. At least 3 credits of science and 1.5 credits of physical education . The school board shall award a pupil a science credit for successfully completing in the high school grades each course in agriculture that the department has determined qualifies as science according to criteria established by the department. The school board shall award a pupil up to one science credit for successfully completing in the high school grades a career and technical education course that the school board determines satisfies a science requirement, but may not award any credit for that course if the school board awards any credit for that same course under subd. 1. c.

Section 2 . 118.33 (1) (a) 1. e. of the statutes is created to read:

118.33 (1) (a) 1. e. At least 1.5 credits of physical education.

Section 3 . Initial applicability.

(1) This act first applies to a high school diploma granted to a pupil in the 2016-17 school year.