Urban Seed School Budget Dashes Hopes for Public Boarding School Project Fails to Get Support As Doyle Labels It Too Costly

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At a time when local and national educational leaders are calling for innovation, a proposal for a groundbreaking public boarding school in Milwaukee for at-risk youth appears doomed by politics in Madison.

For five years, advocates have been developing a plan for the Wisconsin SEED School, an urban boarding school for sixth- through 12th-graders modeled after two highly successful schools for poor and minority youth run by the SEED Foundation in Washington, D.C.

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Urban Seed School Budget Dashes Hopes for Public Boarding School Project Fails to Get Support As Doyle Labels It Too Costly

But last week the Joint Finance Committee failed to endorse the proposal largely because Gov. Jim Doyle and the Wisconsin Education Association Council both said the project was too expensive.

There's little hope the Legislatu...

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