Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction. Division for Management and Budget. Office for Legal Services: Correspondence, 1970-2005

Container Title
2010/133
Part 11 (2010/133): Additions, 1976-1998
Physical Description: 2.0 cubic feet (2 records center cartons) 
Scope and Content Note: Records, 1976-1998, of the Department of Public Instruction's Office for Legal Services. Included are records on special education funding, primarily consisting of studies and reports, and correspondence and other records on categorical aid. Also included are records of Chief Legal Counsel Robert Paul, related to the case of Dieckhoff v. Severson which involved an allegedly improperly conducted referendum on the Juda and Brodhead school districts. There are also records on the controversial evaluations of the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program by University of Wisconsin and Harvard professors, including open records requests and correspondence.
Special education funding
Box   1
Folder   1-3
1979-1995
Box   1
Folder   4
Funding resolution letters, 1988-1989
Box   1
Folder   5
Categorical aid, 1991-1998
Box   1
Folder   6-7
"Handicapped education," 1980-1994
Box   1
Folder   8
School finance/special education finance, 1990-1995
Box   1
Folder   9
Equity
Box   1
Folder   10
A Description of State Funding Procedures for Special Education in the Public Schools, Forum, 1982 July
Box   1
Folder   11
Eagleton Institute for Politics study, 1977 March
Box   1
Folder   12
Financial aids/incentives
Box   1
Folder   13
Delivery system, 1987
Box   1
Folder   14
"Report on handicapped education financing," Department of Public Instruction, 1980-1981
Box   1
Folder   15
Representative Flintrop situation, 1977-1978
Box   1
Folder   16
Cooperative Educational Service Agency (CESA) financial claim, 1986
Box   1
Folder   17
Illinois study, 1994
Box   1
Folder   18-19
Categorical aids, 1984-1994
Box   1
Folder   20-23
Reports, 1976-1998
Robert Paul, Chief Legal Counsel
Box   1
Folder   24
Special education, Madison Metropolitan School District, Don and Laurie Lusk, 1992-1993
Box   2
Folder   1-2
Controlled correspondence, 1992-1994
Box   2
Folder   3
In-service, law library, 1986-1987
Box   2
Folder   4
Goals Committee, 1992-1993
Box   2
Folder   5
Information technology liaisons meetings, 1993-1994
Box   2
Folder   6
State and University Employees Combined Campaign (SECC), 1993
Box   2
Folder   7
State-wide legal support staff group, 1992
Dieckhoff, et al. v. Severson, et al., case number 88-C-906-S, 1988
Box   2
Folder   8-9
United States District Court pleadings
Box   2
Folder   10
Working file
Box   2
Folder   11
United States Court of Appeals
Box   2
Folder   12-13
Correspondence
Paul Peterson, Harvard University, and John Witte, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, 1992-1997
Box   2
Folder   14
Critiques
Box   2
Folder   15
Peterson, abstract
Box   2
Folder   16
Peterson testimony, Jackson v. Benson, 1996 August
Box   2
Folder   17
Peterson study, Witte reply
Box   2
Folder   18
Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council
Box   2
Folder   19
1995
Box   2
Folder   20-22
Open records, Peterson
Box   2
Folder   23
Open records, conference
Box   2
Folder   24
Mitchell, George, Wisconsin Policy Research Institute, report
Box   2
Folder   25
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel records request
Box   2
Folder   26-27
Mitchell, George, records requests