Milwaukee Parent Site Digs into the School Budget

Dani McClain:

How can Milwaukee Public Schools support its high-achieving programs while meeting its mandate to improve struggling schools?

That's the central question at a web site parents at Milwaukee German Immersion School have launched to weigh in on the district's budget process for the 2008- '09 school year.

District officials have asked the specialty elementary school, which has just over 580 students and consitently gets more than three-fourths of them scoring in the proficient or advanced range on state test scores, to cut around $180,000 from next year's budget.

Last month, principal Albert Brugger and the school's Governance Council responded by submitting a proposal that cuts music and physical eduation from the school's offerings. The school has lost its assistant principal and art teacher in recent years due to budget constraints.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 19, 2008 7:33 AM
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