Grants:
Grant Awardees
In the sixth cycle of “A New Vision of Secondary Education in Milwaukee,” funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ten new groups received small school implementation grants of up to $166,000.
To date, thirty-eight schools have opened with grants from TALC New Vision. The school governance breakdowns for these grants are as follows:
| Type of School
| Number of Schools
| Percentage of Total School Grants
|
| Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) Traditional
| 7
| 18%
|
| MPS Instrumentality Charter Schools
| 15
| 40%
|
| MPS Non-Instrumentality Charter Schools
| 2
| 5%
|
| City of Milwaukee Charter Schools
| 1
| 3%
|
| UW-Milwaukee Charter Schools
| 3
| 8%
|
| Private (in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program)
| 10
| 26%
|
| Total
| 38
| 100%
|
Grants made available through “A New Vision of Secondary Education in Milwaukee” fall into the following categories:
Small High School Planning Grants (up to $50,000 for teams in the planning process)
Small High School Implementation Grants (up to $165,000 for approved planning teams as their schools open)
Multiplex Transition Grants (up to $20,000 for large high schools transitioning into a facility that houses multiple small schools)
Grant Awardee Alums (schools no longer in the planning or implementation stage)
View Milwaukee’s New Small High Schools
29 new small high schools are open in the 2007–08 school year. 10 schools are in the planning stages to open in the 2008–09 school year.
[click here to view descriptions of all small high schools]