Section 115.53. State superintendent; powers.

  The state superintendent may:

(2)  Arrange for vocational, trade or academic training for any pupil in either the school operated by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired or the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing qualified to take such training advantageously, in either a public school or technical college or a private business establishment in Janesville or Delavan. The public school and the technical college shall be paid the regular tuition for full-time attendance and proportionally for part-time attendance by the school district responsible for the provision of a free appropriate public education under subch. V .

(3)  Arrange for otological or ophthalmic examination of any pupil or prospective pupil of the school operated by the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the school operated by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The examination shall be paid for from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (1) (b) , (gL) , or (gs) .

(4)  Apply to the board of directors of the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics Authority for admission to the University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics of any pupil at the school operated by the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the school operated by the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired. The application shall be accompanied by the report of a physician appointed by the director of the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the director of the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired and shall be in the same form as reports of other physicians for admission of patients to such hospital.

(5)  Arrange for visits by members of the staff of either the Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing or the Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired to other public schools or to families of children who are hearing impaired or children who are visually impaired, whenever it appears to the state superintendent that such visits will be of advantage to such children.

(6)  Charge the school district responsible for a pupil's placement in a school under this subchapter for the costs of transporting the pupil to and from the pupil's home on weekends. All fees received under this subsection shall be deposited in the appropriation under s. 20.255 (1) (gt) .

1971 c. 100 s. 23 ; 1971 c. 125 s. 522 (1) ; 1973 c. 90 ; 1973 c. 243 ss. 50 , 82 ; 1977 c. 29 ; 1977 c. 418 s. 924 (50) ; 1977 c. 447 s. 206 ; 1979 c. 34 s. 2102 (43) (a) ; 1979 c. 110 s. 60 (12) ; 1981 c. 20 ; 1983 a. 27 ss. 1424 , 2202 (42) ; 1985 a. 29 ; 1987 a. 27 ; 1993 a. 399 , 492 ; 1995 a. 27 ss. 3891 , 3892 , 9145 (1) ; 1997 a. 27 , 164 ; 1999 a. 9 ; 2001 a. 57 ; 2011 a. 32 . Cross-reference: See also ch. PI 12 , Wis. adm. code. The state superintendent does not have the authority to determine whether public schools are segregated or the authority to take enforceable action to desegregate public schools. 65 Atty. Gen. 282.