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West Bend district pitches pilot programs and shared management at former UW‑WC campus

2115118 · January 14, 2025
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West Bend School District leaders told the Washington County Executive Committee they can start small at the former UW‑WC campus, offering space for special‑education and career‑training programs while other districts and agencies consider longer‑term partnerships and cost‑sharing arrangements.

A representative of the West Bend School District told the Washington County Executive Committee that the district is prepared to begin moving programs to the former UW‑WC campus as early as the 2025–26 school year while discussions continue about a larger, multi‑partner vision.

The superintendent (West Bend School District) told the committee the district currently serves about 125 students “in the basement of what is an office building,” without exterior lighting or campus amenities, and that the district has identified roughly 4,000 of the 6,000 square feet of office space on campus that it might occupy initially. “We would be poised to start migrating students and kids,” the superintendent said, adding the district runs programs including credit acceleration, alternative education and post‑graduation services for students through age 21.

County Executive Josh Schulman and…

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