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Committee approves five‑year instrumentality charter contract for Milwaukee Virtual School; administration to monitor
Summary
The committee authorized district staff to finalize and execute a five‑year instrumentality charter contract with Milwaukee Virtual School beginning 2025–26; members asked for annual and renewal monitoring and raised concerns about enrollment projections and program quality controls.
The Committee on Student Achievement and School Innovation authorized administration to negotiate and finalize a five‑year instrumentality charter contract with Milwaukee Virtual School (MVS) to operate beginning with the 2025–26 school year and ending in 2029–30.
Under the item presented by Bridget Schock Anderson, director of contracted school services, the contract follows board approval of the initial proposal and attaches required DPI benchmarks and contract expectations. Schock said the negotiated contract includes testing and academic performance requirements and regular reporting obligations aligned with charter policy 9.12.
Why it matters: The contract would establish MVS as an instrumentality charter of Milwaukee Public Schools. Committee members and public commenters raised questions about ambitious enrollment projections the virtual school supplied (MVS projection cited growth from roughly 900 to 2,500 students by 2028),…
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