Wisconsin Code § 118.21

Teacher contracts
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(1) The school board shall
contract in writing with qualified teachers. The contract, with a
copy of the teacher’s authority to teach attached, shall be filed
with the school district clerk. Such contract, in addition to fixing
the teacher’s wage, may provide for compensating the teacher for
necessary travel expense. A teaching contract with any person
not legally authorized to teach the named subject or at the named
school shall be void. All teaching contracts shall terminate if, and
when, the authority to teach terminates.
(2) Any person who contracts to teach in any public school
shall file in the office of the school district administrator, within
10 days after entering into such contract, a statement showing the
date of expiration, if any, and the grade and character of certificate or license held. In any school district not having a school
district administrator, the statement shall be filed with the school
district clerk. Teachers employed by a cooperative educational
service agency shall file the statement in the office of the agency
coordinator. No order or warrant may be issued by the school district clerk in payment of the salary of any teacher, unless the
teacher has complied with this subsection.
(3) School boards may provide in the contracts of teachers of
agricultural and homemaking courses for payment out of school
district funds for services performed outside the school district
and connected with the performance of their regular teaching duties, and for travel expenses connected with such services.
(4) School boards may give to any teacher, without deduction
from the teacher’s wages, the whole or part of any time spent by
the teacher in attending a teachers’ educational convention, upon
the teacher’s filing with the school district clerk a certificate of attendance at the convention, signed by the person or secretary of
the association conducting the convention.

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