UW-Milwaukee Office of Charter Schools

I just created a map of the 2024-25 DPI School Report Card results for all public schools located in Milwaukee. You can take a look at it here:

2024-25 School Report Card Map for Public Schools in Milwaukee - Google My Maps 2024-25 School Report Card Map for Public Schools in Milwaukee

This article gives a great description of charter schools and the role of the charter school authorizer!

NAEP Shows U.S. Is in a Learning Crisis. Charter Schools Have 3 Ways to Fix It Rausch: Through accountability, innovation and rigor, high-quality charter schools ensure that all students receive an excellent education.

I created a map showing the 2023-24 School Report Card results for all public schools in Milwaukee. You can filter the map with the columns in the table below the map. Check it out here:

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I created a map showing the 2022-23 School Report Card results for all public schools in the city of Milwaukee. You can filter the map with the columns in the table below the map. Check it out here:

Table & Map - Visualize your location data Visualize your location data in an interactive map. Upload an excel, csv or json file with addresses or latitudes and longitudes to get started.

I created a map showing the 2021-22 School Report Card results for all Public Schools in the City of Milwaukee. Check it out here:

2021-22 School Report Card Results for all Public Schools in Milwaukee 2021-22 School Report Card Results for all Public Schools in Milwaukee

Pandemic NAEP data coming in with yet more bad news:

‘Nation’s Report Card’: Two Decades of Growth Wiped Out by Two Years of Pandemic Two decades of growth for American students in reading and math were wiped away by just two years of pandemic-disrupted learning, according to national test scores released this morning.  Dismal releases from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — often referred to as the “nat...

Some thoughts about what might work to help students catch up after the learning losses from the pandemic.

The pandemic has had devastating impacts on learning. What will it take to help students catch up? This may be a moment when decades of educational reform, intervention, and research pay off.

Here's another interesting article about the effect of that charter schools can have:

Analysis: New Research Confirms that Charter Schools Drive Academic Gains for Their Own Students — and for Kids in Nearby District Schools Thirty years ago, when the charter school movement was just getting off the ground, devotees of big-city school systems worried that these new options would drain critical funding, hurt the kids who were left behind and make a system in which race played a central but often unacknowledged role even....

It's not just about reading and math...

PROOF POINTS: Researchers pinpoint three elements of effective schools - The Hechinger Report Parents are often stymied by the process of picking a good school for their kids. Word-of-mouth recommendations can be misleading. High test scores provide only a limited picture of a school’s effectiveness since they often reflect family income with wealthier students scoring better. Northwestern...

Our friends at the Wisconsin Resource Center for Charter Schools created this short informational video about charter schools - check it out!

Charter Schools: A Short Summary What is a charter school? This video highlights the important distinctions between a public school and a charter school. Thank you to TruScribe for creating ...

I think we all saw this coming, but that doesn't make it any easier to read. There is so much work to be done for children!

The Pandemic Exposed the Severity of Academic Divide Along Race and Class: New 2021 Data on Math and Reading Progress Reveal It’s Only Gotten Worse Despite promises to focus on the growing racial and income divide among the nation’s students, new fall testing data show academic gaps have worsened, falling heaviest on some of the most vulnerable children. While education researchers have sounded the alarm for more than a year — that pandemic...