SAGE for ninth graders and new schools for disruptive students would be established under MPS reform legislation proposed by State Rep. Tamara Grigsby and State Sen. Spencer Coggs, according to an overview of their plan.
The overview has a lot more detail than does the press release the two issued yesterday, but still leaves a lot of questions to be answered.
In the overview, for example, the legislators call for establishing the ninth grade SAGE program. SAGE, which is a primary grade class size reduction program, limits the student / teacher ratio to 15:1. The overview says federal funds would be used to pay for the ninth grade program, but does identify the funds or provide a cost estimate. The plan also would require the district to create at least two “assistance and transition campuses” for disruptive students, but does not identify sites, provide cost estimates or say how they would be funded.
The legislation also would reach beyond MPS in some areas. It would increase funding for health services and encourage school district to invest in "green" initiatives. It also would require the Milwaukee County Transit System to give students a 33% fare discount, should Milwaukee County get authority to establish a 0.5% sales tax for transit.
The entire overview is here.
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It's more complete than the TEACH legislation proposed and better for just about everyone.
I feel that the term "disrupted" is to general and broad we have enough segregation in the system.If a student has some real problems they should be handled by professionals in conjunction with the educators.It has been a mystery for my family as to why M.P.S does not supply behavior therapist etc...not the social workers who work once a week or the over-worked under-paid under appreciated teacher.I also feel that people use terms/words to describe students are often times WRONG.Unfortunately the child is labeled and treated poorly.
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