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Wauwatosa School Board reviews school growth plans; principals report gains, pilots and equity concerns
Summary
District principals presented updates on two‑year school growth plans on March 5, highlighting personalized learning pilots, restorative practices and mixed results on disproportionality; board members pressed for subgroup data and tracking plans before adjourning.
On March 5, 2026, the Wauwatosa School Board met in the Fisher Administration Building to hear school growth plan updates from principals representing schools across the district.
The session opened with a presentation from Dean Heuss, administrator of the Wauwatosa Virtual Academy, who described the expansion of a restorative pathways program and the GED Option 2 pathway used to award district diplomas. Heuss said the academy uses mentoring, Check & Connect interventions and “healing‑centered engagement,” and reported that course‑completion metrics rose from roughly 55% midsemester to the low‑80s later in the term, calling the work “about hope, healing, accountability, and growth of young people.”
Nicole Curry, associate principal at Bell R. Phillips School, told the board that the school’s priorities for 2025–26 center on literacy across content areas, staff capacity to support self‑management, and academic/career planning. Curry highlighted scorecard gains—"students who have been with us for at…
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