The Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel – Alan J. Borsuk
“Why don’t we just turn all these failing schools in Milwaukee over to people who will run them better? Because experience elsewhere and realities in Milwaukee suggest it is close to impossible that big steps like that would turn out well. That doesn’t mean there won’t be important action coming out of the state Legislature soon. But it does mean that, if it comes, it will be in smaller increments. What is very likely to be put before legislators will be scaled back from ideas floated earlier to turn a bunch of low-performing schools in the Milwaukee Public Schools system over to independent charter operators and create something like the New Orleans Recovery School District. Two to five schools a year for the next several years — that’s what state Rep. Dale Kooyenga (R-Brookfield) and state Sen. Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) are talking about now.”(more)