'It's For The Children!' Yep. Sure. Whatever.
Where is Gov. Scott Walker on this?
Maybe finestein’s hubby could work a deal and make some big bucks.
“St. Marcus Lutheran School, spent more than a year trying to buy one of the city’s vacant school building. In 2013, St. Marcus, a highly regarded school that accepts voucher students through the Milwaukee...”
Oh, I think I see the “problem”.
One wonders (we not quite) what public schools are afraid of - competition, even in areas where aren't enough students to populate a public school???
Actually, there are enough students but no parents desiring to send their children to one run by the government, who would travel many miles to get to an overcrowded Christian school or resort to the choice of Home schooling.
I don't know about Wisconsin, but in KS it really isn't a matter of who is the sitting Governor but who owns and operates government schools! Our state government cannot force public school districts to sell "their" property to another entity, be that entity a school, Catholic, charter or Christian, or other.
A large school district in Johnson County, KS, after closing down a school desired to sell it and it's surrounding property to a developer who desired to put in high density housing and went to court to fight the neighbors, who rightfully claimed that the property wasn't zoned for such a thing, but with the help of the city (and the money changing hands among the city council and county commissioners) won!
Recently a middle school that had been newly improved planned to sell (again on behalf of the same district) their property to another developer who plans to put not only high density housing (meaning not single family residents) as well as include a senior living center that will include assisted living! Again all done behind homeowners who went to court to fight the school district AND their city, only to lose!
Schools districts care only about maintaining themselves as institutions, keeping their executives well paid, and retaining as many teachers as they can so they can justify so many well-paid executives.
Children’s education is close to last on their list of concerns.
Actually the headline is false. MPS will make it very easy (and profitable) to buy one of their empty schools if you can assure them that it will never be used as a school. In fact they will pay you to take it and then pay rent to use it. After all it is just tax money and as long as it stays out of the hands of any private school....
I remember many schools city empty throughout all of the City of Milwaukee. It would be nice to see some go to the Lutheran Churches that have schools. Oddly enough the only schools that are growing in Milwaukee area are the parochial schools. MPS Schools have standards so low that the parents are up in arms in sending their children to a MPS school. I can remember a niece whom was a music teacher in a Catholic School with the voucher program - the children coming from MPS schools were shocked that they actually had to learn when they were in school. The niece has moved to a catholic college in the area instead as a teacher, much happier and safer, to many times her cash for clunkers car was trashed.
It’s Milwaukee, for Pete’s sake, MARXIST MILWAUKEE. What did you expect, sanity and equality?
Mark Belling has expounded on this at length on several occasions.
Milwaukee Public Schools refuse to sell their empty school buildings to competitors.
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