Residents Give MPS (Milwaukee) Takeover Plan An F At Hearing

[Dinger]

The F is for "Fuck you arne duncan" and your mayoral control, you prick.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/59689667.html

Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle and Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett say a mayoral takeover is necessary to close the state's racial achievement gap and to compete for federal Race to the Top school funding.

But at a hearing on the idea at the MPS administration building, opponents stressed that a mayoral takeover was not a prerequisite for the funding and said neither Doyle nor Barrett has specified how mayoral control would work.

Others said a takeover would merely mean a takeover of parental and voter rights.

"Democracy, alone, has to be an argument against this," former board member Jennifer Morales said.

[goddess40]

1. I'l like to see the two highest poverty areas form their own districts

and the state put the money we send for the charter schools into lowering class size in those areas. Then I wouldn't mind the take of our money as much.

[Dinger]

2. Excellent Point

Thank you.:)

[LWolf]

3. That's a workable idea.

Smaller districts are in closer contact with the communities they serve. I've worked for large and small, and I've always preferred smaller. Friendlier, more collegial, better at getting things done without bureaucratic interference.

What is really necessary to make that work is to guarantee equal funding across a state, so that high poverty areas have as much funding as middle and upper class areas.

That, and fully funding education, so that schools and districts aren't funding things with grants, donations, etc.; wealthy areas can attract more of that kind of funding, too.