The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has a great story on the Connects Learning Center, an innovative partnership between the South Milwaukee, Cudahy and Oak Creek-Franklin school districts aimed at helping struggling students.
Learn more about the charter school here. From the article:
Connects is a charter school run by multiple districts that work together to provide a cost-efficient alternative path for students.
Last year, Kazmierski and a few other students commuted to Connects from Franklin High School; others came from Cudahy, South Milwaukee and Oak Creek-Franklin school districts.
Three of those districts – Cudahy, South Milwaukee and Oak Creek-Franklin – share responsibility for running Connects and a fourth – Franklin – pays for student seats.
The districts say it’s a successful example of offering services better by acting together than by going it alone.
Students say Connects helps them accelerate their path to graduation and improve their chances of success.
“You work at your own pace,” Kazmierski explained. “You don’t have to move with 30 other kids, and if you don’t understand something you can still stay on that same topic and work with the teachers here.”
And check out my previous post on Connects here.
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