Please Contact Your Alderperson About Rocketship « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!

Please Contact Your Alderperson About Rocketship « Larry Miller's Blog: Educate All Students!:

Please Contact Your Alderperson About Rocketship

by millerlf

On Wednesday the Milwaukee Common Council will be voting on a proposed charter school which I wrote about in an op-ed last week in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Journal Sentinel Op-Ed: Rocketship Charter Schools Need Scrutiny.) Tim Sheehy, President of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, has responded with an op-ed supporting the proposal (see his op-ed below.)

This proposal has some interesting features. For example in year one the school will be paying $531,810 from its funds to the “national and regional” Rocketship Education organization. This is the “non-profit” that will be running the proposed school. In the 2^nd year of operation the “national and regional” fees will be $664,763. Each year after, the school will pay $797,717 that will not go to the