In addition to the usual budget approvals three items will be put before the electorate for approval. These items give approval to the board for the sale or lease of the Nichols building and site, lease of the Maywood site and sale of 2 residential properties on Jerome Street across from the high school.
The Madison School District has expressed interest in leasing the Maywood site for their Nuestro Mundo Elementary Charter School. This would be a great opportunity for our district to cut costs while maintaining the building and provide a different opportunity for MG students. We don't have any prospects for the Nichols property, but by getting authorization it will communicate to potential developers that we are serious about moving forward.
Update: the meeting booklet can be found by clicking here.
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NUestro Mundo sounds like it could be an very interesting addiiton to local offerings.
The district is expanding the program to all of its high school attendance areas, and is looking into possibly adding French and Chinese dual language programs, which would also pair native and non-native English speakers.
However, there are some concerns about this particular program's performance.
Read more: link
sorry here is the link
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/education/local_schools/article_686fcc1c-c114-11e0-9e42-001cc4c03286.html
Why not use N. School to address overcrowding in CG? You are going to sell the better school?
Is this the boards secret plot to enable you guys to build a new El School in CG?
Please repeat this over and over until you understand. Or write it backwards on your forehead and stand in front of the mirror:
There is no overcrowding in Cottage Grove Schools.
"There is no overcrowding in Cottage Grove Schools."
You want to tell the MG school board members that one and residents of CG?
CG Elementary has 429 students compared to a capacity of 440 and TP Elementary has 363 FTE students compared to a capacity of 363. These buildings are full but not in any sense overcrowded.
Then why would we giving you guys the authorization to sell Nicholas?
I am voting NO and raising cane.
If there was a deal on the table a special annual meeting is fairly easy to call.
What did Mark Twain say about School Board members?
I think it is interesting that some board members who talked a lot about NOT selling and closing schools ARE selling and closing schools.
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