We need to talk about Milwaukee College Prep. In fact, however much people have talked about this set of four charter schools over the years, we need to talk about Milwaukee College Prep more and more — and learn more and more from what the success of these schools.
There was an amazing fact within the mountain of school reports cards released by the state Department of Public Instruction on Thursday, namely this:
Five schools in Milwaukee were given the five-star top rating, also known as “significantly succeeds expectations.”
One of them was Cooper School, a Milwaukee Public Schools kindergarten through eighth-grade school at 5143 S. 21st St. Cooper is a very good school with a praiseworthy track record of striving to get better in innovative ways, including drawing on outside help that has been beneficial. In 2015-’16, Cooper had 421 students, 60% of them “economically disadvantaged” and 22% having disabilities. Half of the students were white, a third Hispanic.
Locally, Madison continues with it’s non diverse K-12 structure.