URGENT ACTION ALERT from Stop Special Needs Vouchers, Wednesday 16 December 2015

[Stop Special Needs Vouchers]

Greetings from Stop Special Needs Vouchers -- please forward widely and VERY quickly.

Hearing on THURSDAY 12/17 -- Entity That Accredited LifeSkills Academy to be Added to "Approved List"

Sorry for the late notice, but a new bill with harmful implications for special-needs voucher students is being rushed through the legislative process on an incredibly short timeline.

Remember LifeSkills Academy, the Milwaukee voucher school that closed in the middle of the night, almost exactly two years ago?  The operators fled to Florida, where they opened a new iteration of their failed voucher school, declaring sudden expertise in special needs so they could qualify for that state's version of special needs vouchers.

http://www.stopspecialneedsvouchers.org/uncategorized/operators-of-failed-wi-voucher-school-move-to-florida-open-special-needs-voucher-school/

The agency that accredited LifeSkills Academy was Christian Schools International.

This new fast-track bill, AB602, seeks to add Christian Schools International to the list of accreditation agencies that can accredit special needs voucher schools in Wisconsin.

Bill text is online at http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/proposals/ab602.

We need to let the Assembly Education Committee know: 

Accreditation for special needs voucher schools should receive more scrutiny, not less.  Wisconsin cannot tolerate even one more LifeSkills Academy debacle, brought to us by Christian Schools International.  Christian Schools International must not be given rubber-stamp approval to accredit special needs voucher schools in our state!

Can you call or e-mail members of the Assembly Education Committee?

Chair:  Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, Rep.Thi...@legis.wisconsin.gov, (608) 266-3156

Vice-Chair: Rep. Joel Kitchens, Rep.Ki...@legis.wisconsin.gov, (608) 266-5350

Additional committee contact information can be found at http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2015/committees/assembly/1401

Can you attend the hearing on Thursday, and register or speak in opposition?
Thursday, December 17, 2015, 9:30 AM 

417 North (GAR Hall) 

http://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/raw/cid/1213855  (The bill is listed last by bill number, but may possibly be heard first.)

Thank you, and please see the Stop Special Needs Vouchers Facebook page for further updates!

 

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