|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Meeting Date:
|
3/28/2019 - 6:30 PM
|
|
Category:
|
Reports and Communications from the Superintendent of Schools
|
|
Type:
|
Action
|
|
Subject:
|
2. Action on a Request to Approve the Instrumentality Charter School Contract with Green Tree Preparatory Academy to Begin with the 2019-2020 School Year and to End with the Last Regularly Scheduled Day of the 2023-2024 School Year, and on a Motion, Pursuant to Board Rule 1.09(2), to Receive Public Testimony on this Item
|
|
Strategic Plan Compatibility Statement:
|
Goal 1 Academic Achievement Goal 2 Student, Family and Community Engagement Goal 3 Effective and Efficient Operations
|
|
Attachments
|
Green Tree Board Item
Green Tree Preparatory Academy Redline Contract
Appendix A Charter School Petition/Proposal
Appendix B List of MPS Policies, Procedures, and Requirements
Appendix C Charter School Annual Assessment Calendar
Appendix D Charter School Articles of Incorporation
Appendix E Charter School Bylaws
Appendix F Charter School Annual Operating Budget
Appendix G MPS Charter School Budget Format
Appendix H Charter School Calendar
Appendix I Memorandum of Understanding Relating to Charter School Personnel
|
|
File Attachment:
|
|
|
Background:
|
On December 21, 2018, a charter school petition was submitted for the Green Tree Preparatory Academy (GPA), an instrumentality charter school, that will serve approximately 870 students in grades 6 through 12. The school is proposing to begin in the 2019-2020 school year.
GPA’s mission is to build a body of student leaders who will lead or own tomorrow’s businesses. GPA’s vision is to provide a safe, nurturing, and professional community of learning where students are educated, empowered, and enabled to develop the essential skills necessary to lead and to exceed. As part of its petition, GPA requested to be identified as a MPS citywide specialty school.
On January 10, 2019, at the meeting of its Committee on Student Achievement and School Innovation (SASI), the Board gave public hearing regarding GPA's instrumentality charter school petition. On January 24, 2019, the Board approved GPA’s petition to create an instrumentality charter school for five years and directed the Administration, in consultation with the Office of the City Attorney and the Office of Board Governance, to negotiate an instrumentality charter school contract with GPA and to bring that contract to the Board for consideration.
In March 2019, representatives from GPA and the Administration, in consultation with the Office of the City Attorney and the Office of Board Governance, met to negotiate a contract for GPA using the Board-approved model contract. All modifications addressed in this item have been mutually agreed upon by the parties.
Contingent upon the Milwaukee Board of School Directors’ approval, GPA accepts the attached instrumentality charter contract, with the modifications as outlined in the attachments to this item.
President Mark Sain hereby gives notice that he intends to make a motion to receive public testimony on this Item, pursuant to Board Rule 1.09(2):
Section (2) of Board Rule 1.09, Regular Items of Business, states, “The giving of public hearing at any other regular monthly Board meeting [i.e., other than July] shall require a recorded affirmative vote of two-thirds of all members of the Board.”
|
|
Fiscal Impact Statement:
|
The funds for this charter school contract will be included as part of the FY20 budget process. As a citywide specialty school, Green Tree Preparatory Academy may receive an additional allocation as determined by the Board annually.
|
|
Implementation and Assessment Plan
:
|
Upon the Board's approval, the contract will be effective with the 2019-2020 school year.
A copy of the contract will be forwarded to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.
|
|
Recommendation:
|
The Administration recommends that the Board approve the attached instrumentality charter school contract with Green Tree Preparatory Academy to begin with the 2019-2020 school year and to end with the last regularly scheduled day of the 2023-2024 school year.
|
|
Approvals:
|
|
Recommended By:
|
|
Signed By:
|
|
|
Bridget Schock - Partnership School Supervisor I
|
|
|
Signed By:
|
|
|
Lynn Ruhl - Director of Financial Planning and Budget
|
|
|
Signed By:
|
|
|
Marla Bronaugh - Chief Communications and School Performance Officer
|
|
|
Signed By:
|
|
|
Keith Posley, Ed.D. - Superintendent
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|