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Published - Saturday, February 02, 2008

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Milwaukee schools want to hire 200 teachers


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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee Public Schools officials want to hire more than 200 new teachers and spend nearly $17 million to improve high school programs and students' reading and math abilities in an unusual midyear shakeup.

The initiatives being launched at the start of the second half of the school year include:
  • $8 million is being added to high school budgets, to be spent on efforts proposed by each school, including arts programs, foreign languages, staff training and reducing class sizes in core subjects such as reading and math. Plans call for hiring 90 more high school teachers and spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on equipment and programs. The money is coming from local property taxes and state aid.

  • $5 million is for hiring up to 114 new math teachers. MPS officials say they may end up short of that hiring goal because not enough qualified candidates are available. Superintendent William Andrekopoulos said the total hired might be about 100. The money is coming from local property taxes this year.

  • $3.7 million is to hire 37 new reading teachers to work with about 2,250 students in 16 schools who are behind in reading and to provide the software, hardware and other materials needed for a curriculum called Read 180. The program is central to plans aimed at ending the designation of MPS as ``a district identified for improvement'' under federal education law. The money is from a federal grant.

    Andrekopoulos said he expected to include money to continue the high school initiative in his budget proposal for the 2008-'09 school year.
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    North Sider wrote on Feb 2, 2008 6:11 PM:

    " Sorry- That would be '$228 million'. "

    spteach wrote on Feb 2, 2008 4:36 PM:

    " antieverything - how are teachers supposed to teach to students if they don't understand what it is like to live there? Are you proposing teachers commute from Lax? BTW- residency requirements are specific to MPS, not enacted by WEAC "

    antieverything wrote on Feb 2, 2008 1:21 PM:

    " Good Luck on hiring quality teachers when they have residency requirements. Blame WEAC "

    North Sider wrote on Feb 2, 2008 1:06 PM:

    " Get out your checkbooks! Do you really think we are going to sidestep the enormity of the combined problems in Milwaukee. The Milwaukee Tec Campus is short $228 in funding just one employee benefit. The County of Milwaukee is short $1 billion for just one benefit of its County employees. The list goes on and on. Now add to that list a $35 million dollar school referendum of our own, a $45 million dollar Jail, and a City that has the Highest mill rate in WI, fastest growing property tax in WI, and in a State with the highest per capita debt for a State in the USA, and $391 million in property encompassed in TIFs up to 27 years? I am negative, this will all go away?
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