Approved: March 11, 2015 461
Revised: April 27, 2016
Revised: February 26, 2020
WISCONSIN TECHNICAL EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP
Unless otherwise expressly determined by the Evansville Community School District Board of Education, these procedures for awarding the Wisconsin Technical Excellence Higher Education Scholarship shall apply annually.
The number of seniors permitted by state law with a demonstrated exemplary level of proficiency in technical education subjects, as determined under these procedures, will be selected as the high school’s designee(s) to receive the Wisconsin Technical Excellence Scholarship. Any ties will be broken and alternates will be designated as further provided by law and in these procedures. A student who receives a Technical Excellence Scholarship is not eligible to receive a Wisconsin Academic Excellence Higher Education Scholarship, and vice versa.
The District’s designation of its scholar(s) and alternates is not a final determination that the student has met, or will meet, all applicable requirements for receipt of the scholarship funds.
Designating Scholars and Alternates
The District shall identify its Technical Excellence Scholarship designee(s) and alternate(s) using the following procedures:
- Any High School Senior who has applied to a technical school shall be eligible.
- Members of the District’s high school staff shall verify that each student who has submitted a timely declaration of interest meets the minimum eligibility requirements that are to be verified at the school level, including all such requirements established under these procedures or by the Wisconsin Higher Educational Aids Board (HEAB) or by the scholarship program’s authorizing statute.
- For purposes of ranking the qualified scholarship candidates and designating scholars and alternates, the District adopts the points-based ranking system established by the HEAB, under which students’ grade-point average in their Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses serves as the initial tie-breaker if two or more relevant students have acquired the identical number of points. If there are any remaining relevant ties, those remaining ties shall be resolved through the further tie-breaking procedures that have been developed and approved by representatives of the high school administration and staff.
- The high school will designate and rank a group of alternates that is at least equal in number to the number of scholarships that the high school is permitted to award under these procedures.
Additional Requirements/Procedures for Awarding Points in the Points-Based Ranking System
Points associated with Career and Technical Education (CTE) courses will be awarded based upon a standard of each 0.5 high school credit earned toward high school graduation earning 0.5 of a point. CTE courses that are in progress during the grading period in which the District designates its scholars and alternates shall be counted in the point total based on the high school credit expected to be earned.
The District will use the definition of CTE courses identified by the HEAB. For points earned for participation during high school in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO) that is offered in the District, the burden is on the student to demonstrate for each participation point claimed that they actively and regularly participated in a qualifying CTSO for substantially all of the school year in question. “Substantially all of the school year” means at least ¾ of the full school term in grades 9, 10 and 11, and beginning prior to November and continuing through February in grade 12.
Students who are attending a technical college/school pursuing a liberal arts or transfer program are not eligible for this scholarship.
Assignment of Responsibilities
A committee comprised of at least one high school administrator and at least one high school counselor or CTE teacher shall be responsible for reviewing the relevant records and ranking and ordering the designated scholars and alternates, including defining and applying written tie-breaking procedures to the extent necessary. The staff members working on the designations shall submit their work to the High School Principal for final review.
The High School Principal shall be responsible for ensuring that the District timely designates and notifies the HEAB of the District’s scholars and alternates.
District Requirements Determining When a Student May Compete for the Scholarship
As far as (1) determining when a student acquires senior status and the year in which they may otherwise compete for the Technical Excellence Scholarship; and (2) defining the length of time the student must have attended high school in the District in order to compete for the Technical Excellence Scholarship, the District will use the same standards that apply to the process for designating scholars and alternates for the Academic Excellence Scholarship.
High School Grading Policy
The District has a written high school grading system that shall be applied to the process of designating scholars and alternates for a Technical Excellence Scholarship. To the extent it is necessary to calculate a student’s overall grade point average, or grade point average in a subset of courses especially relevant to the Technical Excellence Scholarship, the high school grading system shall be applied, so far as practical, in the same manner as it is applied to calculate the student’s cumulative grade-point average as reported on the student’s high school transcript (including to the same number of decimal places).
HEAB Link: http://www.heab.state.wi.us
Legal Ref.: Sections 39.415 Wisconsin Statutes (Technical Excellence Higher Education Scholarships)
118.13 (Pupil Discrimination Prohibited)
118.27 (Gifts and Grants)
PI 9.03(1), Wisconsin Administrative Code
HEA 9
Local Ref.: Policies: #345.1 - Grading Systems
#345.51 - Academic Honors
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