Interested in receiving regular communications about program deadlines, training opportunities, and other Choice-related news? Email [email protected] with your name, school, and contact information so we can add you to our newsletter list and keep you updated. Important dates for the entire school year can be found here on DPI’s website.

 

October 2026

Ocotober 1

• Deadline for a private school first participating in the PSCP in the 2026-27 school year to develop the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) Model Management Plan. (Please note, the school must implement the plan by the beginning of the second year of participation in the Choice program).

• This plan does not need to be submitted to the DPI, and the law does not require use of any particular template or format for an IEQ Management Plan. Schools may use the DPI template as a model (available by clicking the plan link above), develop their own plan, adapt existing plans, procedure handbooks, or policy documents to demonstrate compliance with the planning and implementation requirements

Ocotober 15

• Continuing schools must submit to the DPI their financial audit for the 2025-26 school year.  Additionally, continuing schools, except for those who were first time participants in the PSCP in the 2025-26 school year, must submit the financial audit management letter if the auditor issued one.  (see Financial Requirements Bulletins on the Program Bulletins webpage, Financial Audit webpage).
• Deadline for all private schools in Wisconsin to complete the PI-1207 Private School Report (school-wide enrollment as of the third Friday in September). Information on completing this report is available on the Submit PI-1207 Data Online webpage. The report stays open until December 15 for corrections identified through the September Enrollment Audits. 

 

 

November 2026

November 1

Schools must revise their annual budget prepared by June 30, if the actual third Friday Choice or all student enrollment varies by 20% or 20 students, whichever is less. If the school is required to update the budget, the budget must reflect the revenues resulting from the school’s actual third Friday in September enrollment, along with related required budget changes. These schools must retain the revised budget and cash flow report on file at the school for auditor review as part of the Fiscal & Internal Control Practices Report (see the Fiscal & Internal Control Practices Bulletin on the Bulletins Webpage).

 

November – After report card publication by the DPI

• Choice schools that have a school website are required to post the school’s most recent report card to the school’s website home page within 30 days after the DPI publishes the report cards. Choice schools must prominently link, from the school’s home page, the school’s most recent report card. 
• Annually (may occur in a different month), Choice schools must provide to the parent or guardian of each student enrolled in or attending the school a copy of:

• The school’s accountability report (complete report card, detailed version), [schools that have opted in to have both a Choice and All-Students report card must post both]; and simultaneously, 
• A list of the educational options available to children who reside in the pupil’s resident school district, which must include public schools, private schools participating in a parental choice program, charter schools, virtual schools, full−time open enrollment, youth options, course options and options for pupils enrolled in a home−based private educational program. See DPI’s notification requirement webpage for additional information.

 

By the End of November

• The DPI remits, by direct deposit, the November state aid payments to eligible schools based on each school’s third Friday in September Count Report and Summer School Count Report (see Training 9-1: Payment Process, Pupil Count Report & Audit Overview on the On Demand Training webpage and the Choice Program Payments – Frequently Asked Questions webpage).
• The DPI provides the 2027-28 school registration materials to schools.  Information on the school registration materials will be available on the School Registration webpage.