Section 115.881. Additional special education aid.

 

(1)  A school board, board of control of a cooperative educational service agency, county children with disabilities education board, or operator of a charter school established under s. 118.40 (2r) or (2x) may apply to the department for aid under this section if the applicant incurred, in the previous school year, more than $30,000 of nonadministrative costs for providing special education and related services to a child and those costs were not eligible for reimbursement under s. 115.88 , 115.93 , or 118.255 , 20 USC 1400 et seq., or federal medicaid.

(2)  For each child whose costs exceeded $30,000 under sub. (1) , the department shall, from the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (bd) , pay an eligible applicant in the current school year an amount equal to 0.70 multiplied by that portion of the cost under sub. (1) that exceeded $30,000.

(3)  If the appropriation under s. 20.255 (2) (bd) is insufficient to pay the full amount of costs under sub. (2) , the department shall prorate payments among eligible applicants.

(4)  A school district receiving aid under s. 115.883 in any school year is not eligible for aid under this section in that school year.

2005 a. 25 ; 2007 a. 20 ; 2015 a. 55 . Cross-reference: See also ch. PI 30 , Wis. adm. code.