- Milwaukee Public Schools
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Milwaukee Public Schools Type and location Type Public Grades PK - 12 Location Milwaukee, Wisconsin District Info Superintendent Gregory Thornton Students and staff Students 87,362 Teachers 6,100 Staff 388 Other information Website http://www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is the largest school district in Wisconsin. As of 2007, it had an enrollment of 87,360 students,[1] and as of 2006 employed 6,100 full-time and substitute teachers in 223 schools. The Milwaukee Public Schools system is the 33rd largest in the United States by enrollment. A publicly elected school board, the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, provides direction and oversight, with a superintendent heading the organization's administration. The district owns WYMS-FM (88.9), which airs an eclectic selection of music and is programmed by a local non-profit group via an LMA.
Milwaukee Public Schools previously operated as magnet schools, with individualized specialty areas for interests in academics, or the arts. Rufus King High School, Golda Meir School, Riverside University High School, Milwaukee School of Languages, Milwaukee High School of the Arts, Samuel Morse Middle School for the Gifted and Talented and Lynde & Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School are some of the magnet schools in Milwaukee. The district has a budget of $1 billion, a drop out-rate in the top five of America,[2] and some of the worst reading comprehension scores in the nation.[3]
School District officials note declining funding as a catalyst to problems in the district.[4] However, local journalists have cited school officials as lacking in motivation to improve the system.[5][6]
In 1990, Milwaukee became the first community in the United States to adopt a school voucher program. The program enables students to receive public funding to study at parochial and other private schools free of cost. The 2006-2007 school year will mark the first time that more than $100 million will be paid in vouchers, as 26% of Milwaukee students will receive public funding to attend schools outside the MPS system.[7] If the voucher program alone were considered a school district, it would mark the sixth-largest district in Wisconsin.[citation needed]
Under Wisconsin state law, the Milwaukee school board is one of several entities that can authorize charter schools in the city. Other authorities that can authorize charter schools are the Milwaukee City Council, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Area Technical College Board.[8] The first charter school in Milwaukee was the Highland Community School, a Montessori elementary school authorized by Milwaukee Public Schools in 1996.[9]
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Schools
K-8 schools
- Auer Avenue Elementary School
- A.E. Burdick School
- Dr. Benjamin Carson Academy of Science
- George Washington Carver Academy of Mathematics and Science
- Cass Street School
- Luther Burbank Elementary School
- James Fenimore Cooper Elementary School
- Eighty-First Street Elementary School
- Fernwood Montessori School
- Frederick J. Gaenslen School
- U.S. Grant Elementary School
- Grantosa Drive Elementary School
- Greenfield Elementary School
- Hartford Avenue University School for Urban Explorations
- Hmong American Peace Academy
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School
- Hopkins Street Elementary School
- Humboldt Park School
- Keefe Avenue Elementary School
- Martin Luther King Jr. School
- Robert M. LaFollette Elementary School
- Lee Elementary School
- Milwaukee Sign Language
- Edward A. MacDowell Montessori Elementary School
- Manitoba Elementary School
- Maryland Avenue Montessori School
- McNair Academy Elementary School
- Ralph H. Metcalfe School
- Alexander Mitchell Integrated Arts Elementary School
- Craig Montessori Elementary School
- Sherman Multicultural Arts Elementary School
- Sixty-Fifth Street Elementary School
- Albert Story School
- Thurston Woods Campus Elementary School
- Tippecanoe Elementary School for the Humanities
- Townsend Street Continuous Progress Elementary School
- Trowbridge Street Elementary School
- Urban Waldorf Elementary School
- Victory School
- Vieau School
- Westside Academy I & II
Elementary schools
- Academy of Accelerated Learning
- Academia de Lenguaje y Bellas Artes
- Alcott School
- Allen-Field School
- Barton School
- Mary McLeod Bethune Academy
- Brown Street Academy
- Browning School
- Bruce School
- Bryant School
- Carleton School
- Clarke Street Elementary School
- Clemens School
- Clement Ave. School
- Congress School
- Curtin School
- Doerfler School
- Frederick Douglass Elementary School
- Dover St. School
- Elm Creative Arts School
- Emerson School
- Engleburg School
- Fifty-third St. School
- Arthur A. Fletcher
- Forest Home Ave. School
- Franklin School
- La Escuela Fratney
- Garden Homes School
- Garland School
- German Immersion School
- Golda Meir School (originally Fourth Street School)
- Goodrich School
- Green Bay Ave. School
- Hampton School
- Hawley Road School
- Hawthorne School
- Hayes School
- Young Leaders Academy College Prep School
- Hi-Mount Blvd. School
- Honey Creek School
- Kagel School
- Kilbourn School
- Kluge School
- Lincoln Ave. School
- Lloyd St. School
- Lancaster elementary school
- Longfellow School
- Lowell School
- Maple Tree School
- Milwaukee French Immersion School
- Milwaukee Sign Language
- Morgandale School
- Neeskara School
- Ninety-Fifth St. School
- Parkview Elementary School
- Philipp School
- Pierce Elementary School
- James Whitcomb Riley Elementary School
- River Trail Elementary School
- Siefert Elementary School
- Silver Spring Elementary School
- Sixty-Eighth Street Early Childhood Center
- Frances Starms Discovery Learning Center
- Starms Early Childhood Center
- Stormonth Elementary School
- Gilbert Stuart Elementary School
- Thirty-Eighth Street Open Education Elementary School
- Thirty-Fifth Street Elementary School
- Henry David Thoreau Elementary School
- Twenty-First Street Elementary School
- Phillis Wheatley Elementary School
- Walt Whitman Elementary School
- Wisconsin Avenue Elementary School
- Clement J. Zablocki Elementary School
Middle schools
- Audubon Technology & Communication Center
- Fritsche Middle School
- John Burroughs Middle School
- John Muir Middle School
- Kosciuszko Middle School
- Lincoln Center of the Arts
- Milwaukee Education Center
- Milwaukee School of Languages
- Roosevelt Middle School of the Arts
- Rufus King International School - Middle Years Program
- Samuel Morse Middle School for the Gifted and Talented
- Thomas A. Edison Middle School
- Wedgewood Park International School
Middle and high school
- The Alliance School
High schools
- Advanced Language & Academic High School
- Alexander Hamilton High School (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)
- Bay View High School
- Casimir Pulaski High School
- CITIES Project High School
- Custer High School
- Edison Career Academy
- Foster and Williams Visual Communications Campus
- Genesis High School
- Harold S. Vincent High School
- Humanities High School
- International Peace Academy
- John Marshall High School (Wisconsin)
- Lynde & Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School
- Madison University High School
- Metropolitan High School
- Milwaukee Academy of Aviation, Science, & Technology
- Milwaukee Community High School
- Milwaukee High School of the Arts
- Milwaukee Learning Laboratory & Institute
- Milwaukee School of Entrepreneurship
- Milwaukee School of Languages
- New School for Community Service
- North Division Virtual University High School
- Northwest Secondary School
- Professional Learning Institute
- Riverside University High School
- Ronald Wilson Reagan College Preparatory High School
- Rufus King International School - High School Campus
- Solomon Juneau Business High School
- South Division High School
- Truth Institute for Leadership and Service
- Washington High School
- W.E.B. Du Bois High School
- Wisconsin Conservatory for Lifelong Learning
Milwaukee Board of School Directors
- Tim Petersons, District 1
- Jeff Spence, District 2,
- Michael Bonds, District 3 President
- Annie Woodward, District 4
- Larry Miller, District 5
- Peter Blewett, District 6, Vice President
- David Voeltner, District 7
- Terrence Falk, District 8
- Bruce Thompson, At-Large
References
- ^ Borsuk, Alan J.. "The face of Milwaukee Public Schools is changing". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/29329954.html. Retrieved 2009-04-06.
- ^ http://mpsportal.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/portal/server.pt?open=512&objID=339&mode=2&in_hi_userid=2&cached=true
- ^ http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/94449649.html
- ^ Borsuk, Alan (2006-03-28). "Low-income student funding is decreased by state". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=411532. Retrieved 2006-04-20.[dead link]
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- ^ [2]
- ^ "Vouchers to Pass $100 Million Mark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Nov. 21, 2006". http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=533306. Retrieved 2006-11-21.
- ^ Layla Merrifield, Charter Schools, Wisconsin Legislative Fiscal Bureau Informational Paper 30, January 2011.
- ^ About Charter Schools, Highland Community School website, accessed February 7, 2011
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