Choice School Network Wants To Buy Former MPS School
One of largest local voucher schools wins bid for long-vacant Emanuel Philipp School.
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Having worked in this lovely building, I am surprised that it stayed vacant for so long. It is in a good location and has ample room to expand onto the old playground. I am glad that Jeramey Jennane brought up the fact that three of the four schools run by Hope Christian Schools have marginal outcomes even with the limited reporting that they are obligated to do as opposed to public schools. The idea that competition leads to school improvement wad dismissed by a report by the non-partisan Wisconsin Policy Institute. After 30 years of alleged “school reforms”, there has not been significant improvements in outcomes by choice school in Milwaukee. With 2800 students, the school system has State aide of over $28,000,000 more than many local school districts with minimal accountabilty. I guess the pubic is suppose to trust that this money is being spent on behalf of the students.
I’m not a huge fan of the Choice program BUT I’d like to see the building sold and if the neighborhood wants a school and Hope is offering a fair price, I would vote to sell it. Hope’s results are not worse than the MPS averages and MPS isn’t going to reopen there