Last Week's Round-Up

Two school board committee meetings occurred last week--both dealt with school closings or schools merging/moving. I was only able to catch the end of the meeting on Thursday night, the Committee on Finance/Personnel, and heard some of the discussion around the future of Milwaukee Education Center (MEC) Middle School. The Committee did not take any action dealing with the closing of the MEC facility and putting it up for sale and then moving the Middle School to Juneau.
Though I did not attend the meeting of the Committee on Innovation/School Reform on Tuesday night reference was made to that meeting by school board members who mentioned that action was taken on the recommendation of the Bayview School Improvement Task Force, a group of school community members from various schools in the Bayview area that has been meeting since Spring 2008. Recommendations from the Task Force include a gradual merge between Fritche and Bayview High School over three years with a combined program ending up at the Bayview High School building. The other recommendation from the Task Force, to combine Tippecanoe and Dover at Dover's site was sent to the full board without recommendations from the committee. More about that meeting is blogged here.