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GLOSSARY OF TERMS PROVIDED BY:
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Online www.jsonline.com
Original URL: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=377025
From an article by Alan Borsuk
Glossary Posted: Dec. 10, 2005
Charter schools: Publicly funded schools given more independence to operate than conventional public schools, frequently offering innovative programs and given permission to operate by governmental bodies generally on five-year contracts. Religious schools cannot be charter schools. Charter schools generally receive about $7,500 per student per year. Charter schools' students take state standardized tests and results, by school, are reported publicly. There are more than 50 charter schools in Milwaukee now.
Choice schools: Just about any school in Milwaukee these days is a choice school in the sense that parents choose to send their children there from among many options. But in Milwaukee, the term is generally applied to charter and voucher schools and often specifically to the voucher schools. The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program is often referred to as "school choice" and involves only voucher schools.
City Hall charter schools: Charter schools authorized to operate by the Milwaukee Common Council and accountable to a committee created by city government.
MPS charter schools: Charter schools authorized by the Milwaukee School Board. There are two types: schools where the teachers are unionized MPS employees, including some longtime MPS schools that wanted some of the advantages of being charter schools, and schools contracting with MPS and run by people outside of MPS who do not employ unionized teachers.
Milwaukee Parental Choice program: The official name of the school voucher program in Milwaukee, which includes almost 15,000 students this year.
UWM charter schools: Charter schools authorized to operate by the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents and accountable to officials at UWM.
Voucher schools: Schools that take part in Wisconsin's groundbreaking program to pay for low-income students to attend private schools in Milwaukee. About 130 schools have voucher students this year; the state pays up to $6,351 per student to those schools. About 70% of the schools are religious schools.
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