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This page provides WISEdata reporting information and WiSFiP reporting information for three types of school contracts. Contracting for services does not change FAPE accountability.

66.0301 Contract                Integration Aid                121.78 Contracts

For information on scenarios involving multi-district charter schools (MDC), please visit the WISEdata Uncommon Situations, Multi-District Charter Schools webpage.

WISEdata: Data Element Information

District (Submitting District): In general, the school or district where the student is enrolled and receiving instruction.

District of Residence: This is where the student ‘sleeps at night’. This may be at home, in an institution, or in any other facility. In the use cases below, when two districts are involved in a contract they will be referred to as either the resident district or the non-resident district. FAPE obligation continues from the resident school district.

FAPE Responsible District: FAPE-responsible school/district denotes which school/district should be held accountable for special education students' education.

  • The Special Education Team's FAPE Accountability Reference Chart is the best resource to access to help you determine if the resident district or another district needs to be the FAPE accountable school.
  • NOTE: If the FAPE Accountable school/district is incorrectly reported by the Submitting school/district, this may trigger a WISEdata Portal validation rule (e.g., Validation Warning 6625.
  • NOTE: Contracting for services does not change FAPE accountability. All WISEdata reporting responsibilities must be submitted by the district providing services to the student. The resident district writes the IEP and the non-resident district submits the sSEPA record, demographics, and all other required data to WISEdata. 

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66.0301 Contracts

A 66.0301 agreement is a contract between an authorizing district and a partnering district allowing students to attend the partnering district as a purchased service but not an enrollment transfer. 66.0301 contains a wide definition of “municipalities” and is not specific to school issues.

Some scenarios for 66.0301 agreements provide:

  • Students have a primary enrollment at a state school (Wisconsin Educational Services Program for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing [WESP-DHH] or Wisconsin Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired [WCBVI]) taking a few courses at a school in their resident school district.
  • Special education support either full day or partial day
    • Half-day Early Childhood (EC) classes/programs for districts too small to have their own
  • Cooperative high school sports teams between two school districts

Resident districts may enter into cooperative agreements under Wis. Stat. § 66.0301 to collaborate for instruction.

The 66.0301 agreement must specify which district will be the fiscal agent. The district serving as a fiscal agent pays tuition to the other district. The term of the agreement is specified in the contract and may cover multiple years.

Membership for state aid purposes is to be counted by the district of residence to cover:

  • Forming a cooperative to obtain and/or deliver services to member districts
  • Purchasing services directly from another district or cooperative
  • Providing access to a specific program operated by another district

One district may not sell instructional services to another school/district for the purpose of generating revenue above and beyond its cost of providing those services.

Student Receiving All Services Full Time from Non-Resident District

A resident district and a non-resident district have a 66.0301 agreement. “All services” refers to both primary education and special education services. The resident district writes the student’s IEP and is the district of accountability. The non-resident district provides all education services. The 66.0301 agreement must specify which district will be the fiscal agent. Membership for state aid purposes is to be counted by the district of residence.

WISEdata Reporting: Resident & Non-Resident District

Resident District (FAPE Accountable): WISEdata Reporting Responsibilities

  • No WISEdata reporting.
  • Indicated as FAPE Accountable school.
  • Writes and shares IEP with non-resident district. Completes reevaluations as needed/requested.

Non-Resident District (Submitting District): WISEdata Reporting Responsibilities

WiSFiP Reporting: Resident & Non-Resident District / Other Membership Information

Resident District: WiSFiP Reporting Responsibilities

Non-Resident District: WiSFiP Reporting Responsibilities

Student Receiving Shared Part-Time Services from Resident and Non-Resident District

A resident district and a non-resident district have a 66.0301 agreement where both resident and non-resident district provide services to a student with an IEP who attends school full-time, shared across both districts.

An example would be a student below compulsory school age receiving special education services by their resident district and a CCDEB.  

The resident district writes the student’s IEP and is the district of accountability. The non-resident district provides special education education services.

WISEdata Reporting: Resident & Non-Resident District/CCDEB

Resident District (FAPE Accountable): WISEdata Reporting Responsibilities

Reporting Scenario if Partnering with Another School District

  • Generally, the resident district does no WISEdata reporting. However,

  • If the student receives some services from the resident school district:

    • Depending on the number of classes taken by the student in the resident district, the resident district may be able to submit a Coursework enrollment type to WISEdata Portal for the courses provided to the student.
    • The non-resident school reports primary enrollment and all other associated WISEdata reporting.
  • Indicated as FAPE Accountable school by the non-resident district
  • Gets credit for the student for the Oct 1 Child Count date
  • Writes and shares IEP with non-resident district. Completes reevaluations as needed/requested

Reporting Scenario if Partnering with a CCDEB

  • No WISEdata reporting for the resident district.
  • NOTE: If CCDEB identifies the resident district as FAPE accountable, this would increase the resident district’s accountable count but not the attending count. The resident district may elect to track these enrollments within their own student information system (SIS); however, these enrollments should be configured such that they are not sent to WISEdata.
  • Writes and shares IEP with non-resident district. Completes reevaluations as needed/requested
  • Receives payment for services from the CCDEB

Non-Resident District/CCDEB (Submitting District): WISEdata Reporting Responsibilities

All associated WISEdata Reporting:

  • Submits the primary enrollment record and all associated data elements (e.g., enrollment type, enrollment and exit dates, exit type) including any disciplinary incidents
  • Submits student on count dates for TFS
  • Follows IEP and provides special education services
  • Submits sSEPA record for IEP and all associated data elements
  • Identifies the resident district as FAPE accountable in WISEdata

WiSFiP Reporting: Resident & Non-Resident District / Other Membership Information

Resident District: WiSFiP Reporting Responsibilities

Non-Resident District/CCDEB: WiSFiP Reporting Responsibilities

  • Does not submit any pupil count data (as per Membership Count: Read table for “Who Is Counted”)

Membership/Financial Implications & Resources:

Any state or federal aids received by the agency of service for serving the resident district’s students must be paid to the resident district as a transit of aid.

School Financial Services Tuition webpage School Financial Services Team, Reminder on Cooperative Agreements and Tuition webpage (i.e., Fund 10 and 27) School Financial Services Funds webpage Special Education Tuition reference document

Student Enrolls in a Consortium/Multi-District Charter School Authorized by a Non-Resident District

A consortium/multi-district charter school is a charter school within a school district whose authorizing school district contracts with other school districts to provide instruction within the charter school to students outside of their own district. It includes both brick-and-mortar district charter schools and virtual charter schools. A 66.0301 agreement is the contract between the authorizing district and the partnering districts allowing students to attend the charter school as a purchased service instead of an enrollment transfer.

  • The student remains a student in the partnering district, and the partnering district is responsible for reporting ALL of their data.
  • Typically, the partnering districts place the student under the charter school’s school code, within their own student information system (SIS).  An iteration of the authorizing district’s school code will be assigned to each of their partnering districts.
  • The authorizing district shares with partnering districts all necessary data elements, including the courses, student attendance, administered assessments, and grades, but the partnering district must enter this information into the SIS.

>Please see the Multi-District Charter Schools for additional information about accountability and other considerations.

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121.78 Contracts: Tuition Sharing Agreement

Districts may enter into a tuition agreement under Wis. Stat. §121.78(1) in order for a resident district to enroll an individual student with a non-resident district. This can apply to either an in-state or out-of-state non-resident district. These agreements represent scenarios pertaining, but not limited to: high school students completing the final years in the high school where they attended grades 9 and 10 when a school district reorganization would move them to a different high school; court-ordered educational services; alternative programs; and special education services under sub.ch V of Ch 115. Find more information on the School Financial Services, Tuition webpage.

This type of agreement is for one school year and must include two components:

  1. The specific amount of tuition to be paid in the school year of attendance is determined within a Wis. Stat. §121.78(1)(a) contract.
    • A tuition agreement for a student with disabilities must break the amount into separate Fund 10 and Fund 27 components.
    • There is a third type of tuition agreement under Wis. Stat. §121.78 (1) (b) for enrollment in out-of-state public schools, but out-of-state enrollments required by IEPs fall under the more specific laws on placing students with disabilities.
  2. A specific estimate of the maximum amount of state aid, if any, to be received by the enrolling district in the following year and paid to the resident district as a transit of aid. If the actual aid received is greater than the estimate, the enrolling district retains the difference.
WISEdata Reporting: Resident & Non-Resident District

Resident District (FAPE Accountable): WISEdata Reporting Responsibilities

  • No WISEdata reporting
  • Submits the student for Oct 1 Child Count date when student receives special education services
  • Writes and shares IEP with non-resident district. Completes reevaluations as needed/requested
  • Indicated as FAPE Accountable school by non-resident district

Non-Resident District (Submitting District): WISEdata Reporting Responsibilities

WiSFiP Reporting: Resident & Non-Resident District / Other Membership Information

Resident District: WiSFiP Reporting Responsibilities

Non-Resident District: WiSFiP Reporting Responsibilities

Does not submit any pupil count data.

Membership/Financial Implications:

Any state or federal aid received by the agency of service for serving the resident district’s students must be paid to the resident district as a transit of aid.

School Financial Services:

School Financial Services Team, Reminder on Cooperative Agreements and Tuition webpage (i.e., Fund 10 and 27) School Financial Services Funds webpage Special Education Tuition reference document

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Integration Aid Contracts: Inter/Intra-District Transfers (220)

Intra-district: a school within the same resident school district.

Inter-district: a school within a non-resident school district.

NOTE: This practice was discontinued within the 2015-2017 biennial budget. Students who participated in the 2014-15 school year that were approved to participate for the 2015-16 school year may continue to participate, but no new students may enter the program.

Definition: Integration Aid is provided for pupils who transfer between attendance areas having certain concentrations of minority or non-minority pupil populations. Minority group students in an attendance area where minority group pupils constitute 30 percent or more of the number of pupils enrolled in the school serving that attendance area but, for intra-district moves, transfer to another school within the district where minority group pupils constitute less than 30 percent of the number of pupils enrolled in that school or to a school serving the entire district;

OR

Non-minority group student who has reached the age of four on or before September 1 of the year starting school and who resides in an attendance area where minority group pupils constitute less than 30 percent of the number of pupils enrolled in the school serving that attendance area and which the pupil normally would attend, from that school to another school within the district where minority group pupils constitute 30 percent or more of the number of pupils enrolled in that school or to a school serving the entire district.

WISEdata Reporting:

The school where the student attends (i.e., the school where the student sits in the desk) would be held accountable and would be responsible for data submission.

Membership/Financial Implications:

Any state or federal aids received by the agency of service for serving the resident district’s students must be paid to the resident district as a transit of aid.

More information is available on the DPI School Financial Services Team, Integration Aid webpage and theSpecial Education Tuition webpage.

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