Director
Mark Elworthy
mark.elworthy@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 266-9534
Assistant Directors
Bob Soldner
robert.soldner@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 267-9124
Angeline Gaster
angeline.gaster@dpi.wi.gov
Grant program assignments
(608) 264-9541
Program Staff
Glenn Aumann
glenn.aumann@dpi.wi.gov
Grant program assignments
(608) 266-3489
Rick Cruz
ricardo.cruz@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 266-8255
Jacque Darrow
jacqueline.darrow@dpi.wi.gov
Grant program assignments
(608) 267-9134
Ryan Egan
ryan.egan@dpi.wi.gov
Grant program assignments
(608) 266-1723
Kathy Fry
kathleen.fry@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 224-5343
Ben Kopitzke
benjamin.kopitzke@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 267-9279
Roger Kordus
roger.kordus@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 267-3752
Jim Rhinerson
james.rhinerson@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 266-7692
Sumana Sengupta
sumana.sengupta@dpi.wi.gov
Grant program assignments
(608) 267-9205
Najat Shorette
najat.shorette@dpi.wi.gov
Grant program assignments
(608) 266-6856
Aaron Ziemke
aaron.ziemke@dpi.wi.gov
Grant program assignments
(608) 266-2205
Vacant - School Finance Accountant-Advanced
General Information
dpifin@dpi.wi.gov
(608) 267-9114
Staff Assignments
- Aid Payments: Sumana Sengupta
- Annual Reports: Mark Elworthy
- Budget Hearing and Adoption: Roger Kordus
- Budget Reports: Roger Kordus
- Challenge Academy: Roger Kordus
- Common School Fund (Library Aids): Roger Kordus
- Community Programs and Services (Fund 80): Roger Kordus
- Cooperative Agreements (sec. 66.0301, Wis. Stats): Kathy Fry
- Debt Service Reporting: Olivia Bernitt
- Energy Efficiency Exemption: Roger Kordus
- Equalization/General Aid: Ben Kopitzke
- Federal Impact Aid: Jim Rhinerson
- Fees (Student): Roger Kordus
- Fiscal Audit Questions: Olivia Bernitt
- Foster or Group Home Membership: Kathy Fry
- Fund 41 (Capital Expansion Fund): Roger Kordus
- Fund 46 (Long Term Capital Improvement Fund): Roger Kordus
- High Cost Special Education Aid: Rick Cruz
- Indirect Cost: Olivia Bernitt
- Membership Report: Roger Kordus
- Other Post-Employment Benefits (OPEB or Fund 73): Olivia Bernitt
- Per Pupil Aid: Ben Kopitzke
- Referendum: Roger Kordus
- Residency: Roger Kordus
- Revenue Limit: Ben Kopitzke
- SAGE Debt Service, sec. 118.43(4), Wis. Stats: Ben Kopitzke
- School District Reorganization: Kathy Fry
- School Level Reporting/ESSA Financial Transparency: Bob Soldner
- Special Education and School Age Parent State Aid: Rick Cruz
- State Tuition Aid Payments: Kathy Fry
- Summer and Interim Courses (Fiscal, Membership): Roger Kordus
- Supplemental Aid, 115.435 WI Stats: Roger Kordus
- Tax Incremental District (TID/TIF): Ben Kopitzke
- Transfer of Service to Revenue Limits: Kathy Fry
- Transportation Aid: Kathy Fry
- Tuition (Paid by Parents or LEAs): Roger Kordus
- WUFAR: Jim Rhinerson