Grigsby, Coggs unveil MPS proposal

It's called the Reforming and Advancing Children's Education (RACE) for Success Act.

Major provisions, as outlined in a press release issued by State Rep. Tamara Grigsby (D-Milwaukee) and State Sen. Spencer Coggs (D-Milwaukee), and are outlined below.

The Partnership for Success will consist of the MPS School Board and the City of Milwaukee Common Council. Both the mayor and the school board president will serve as co-chairs of the partnership.

• Through the Partnership for Success, both the city and school board would be responsible for maintaining a "Grassroots Education Network" of community organizations aimed at increasing civic and parental engagement with MilwaukeePublic Schools.
• The democratically-elected MPS School Board shall ultimately select the school superintendent, but the mayor will have the power to provide input into the superintendent search and even possibly reject the board's final selection through a new veto authority. Ultimately, that veto would be subject to a potential override by the school board.
• The school board shall maintain its authority over the MPS budget and school policy, but the mayor will be given the ability to control the property tax levy if the school board's budget increased that levy by more than 8%. In such asituation, the mayor would receive line-item veto authority over the school budget that would in turn be subject to a potential veto override by the elected school board.