MPS committee agenda packed with school changes

The Milwaukee Public Schools Board Committee on Innovation and School Reform has a packed agenda for its meeting tomorrow evening at 5:30 p.m.

Most of the 20 items relate to closing or changing school programs, though there are also some recommendations to renew some expiring charter school contracts.

Some of the closure items have roots in the recently released Facilities Master Plan. Others do not. A number of that plan’s recommendations have been dropped in recent days.

Public testimony will be heard at Tuesday’s meeting. Some other items are on the agenda for Thursday’s Accountability, Personnel and Finance Committee meeting. Testimony will be taken at that meeting, too.

Here are some of the subjects of action items. Note that an instrumentality requires that a charter school hire unionized MPS teachers. Non-instrumentality charters do not carry that stipulation.

Recommendation to close the Dr. George Washington Carver Academy of Mathematics and Science School educational program at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Recommendation to relocate the Wisconsin Conservatory
of Lifelong Learning’s educational program to the Sarah Scott facility at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Recommendation to relocate the Hamlin Garland Elementary School’s educational program to the Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning’s facility and to expand the educational program to K-8 at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Request for authorization to enter into negotiations to amend the
instrumentality charter school contract with Kosciuszko Montessori
Charter School.
Recommendation to relocate the Hayes Bilingual Elementary School’s educational program to the Kosciuszko Facility and to expand the educational program to K-8 at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Recommendation to close the John Burroughs Middle School’s
educational program at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Recommendation for non-renewal of the non-instrumentality
charter school contract with Wisconsin Career Academy.
Recommendation for non-renewal of the instrumentality charter
school contract with James Madison Academic Campus.
Request for non-renewal of the instrumentality charter school contract for Milwaukee Academy of Chinese Language.
Mutual request for termination of the instrumentality charter school contract with Montessori High School, an IB World School, and closure of the school at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Recommendation to relocate MacDowell Montessori’s K-8 educational program to the Juneau facility and to expand the educational program to K3-Grade 12 at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Mutual request for termination of the instrumentality charter school contract with School for Urban Planning And Architecture (SUPAR) and closure of the school at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Mutual request for the termination of the instrumentality charter
school contract with WORK Institute and closure of the school at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Mutual request for termination of the instrumentality charter school contract with Advanced Language and Academic Studies (ALAS) and the closure of the school at the end of the 2011-12 School Year.
Recommendation for the non-renewal of the instrumentality charter school contract with Milwaukee School of Entrepreneurship (MSE).
Recommendation for renewal of the instrumentality charter school
contract with Community High School.
Recommendation for renewal of the instrumentality charter school
contract with the Alliance School.
Recommendation for renewal of the non-instrumentality charter
school contract with Carmen High School of Science and Technology.
Request for authority to submit a request to the Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction to allow early start dates for Ronald Wilson Reagan College Preparatory High School (Grades 9-12) and Rufus King International School (Grades 6-12).
Resolution 1112R-003 by Director (Mark) Sain to conduct a feasibility study to explore opening a high school for safety and criminal justice in the Webster facility.