Hearing On Hostile Takeover of MPS Buildings To Be Held Wednesday October 9 in Madison
A hearing will be held Wednesday October 9 on legislation that authorizes seizure of MPS buildings. This is a hostile takeover of MPS facilities so that buildings can be leased or sold by private entities for a profit.
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
9:30 AM
Capital Building 411 South
Please attend and express your opposition!
Senate Bill 318 proposes:
That any property that is designated as surplus, underutilized, or vacant on any resolution adopted by the MPS board within the previous five year can be taken from MPS and purchased by an “education operator.”
The bill defines “underutilized” as:
a) less than 40 percent of the square footage of the school is used for the instruction of pupils on a daily, school day basis;
b) the school is not staffed on a full-time basis by a principal and instructional staff assigned exclusively to the school; or
c) the number of hours of pupil instruction offered in the school building in the previous school year was less than 80 percent of the number of hours of pupil instruction required to be offered by MPS.
Under the bill an education operator is:
a) an entity/company engage in real estate operation, sales, lease or development of schools;
b) private companies investing in charter schools;
c) the operator of a charter school established by the common council of the city, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside, or the Milwaukee Area Technical College district board;
d) the operator of a private school;
e) the operator of a charter school that is not an instrumentality of MPS;
f) a person that is pursuing a contract with MPS to operate a school as a charter school that is not an instrumentality of the school district;
g) an entity or organization that has entered into a written agreement with any of the education operators identified in the above items to purchase or lease a building within which that education operator will operate a school.
Senate
PUBLIC HEARING
PUBLIC HEARING
Committee on Government Operations, Public Works, andTelecommunications
The committee will hold a public hearing on the following items at the time specified below:Wednesday, October 9, 2013
9:30 AM
411 South
Senate Bill 318
Relating to: authorizing the city of Milwaukee to sell eligible school facilities to eligible purchasers.
By Senators Darling, Farrow, Vukmir, Lazich and Grothman; cosponsored by Representatives Sanfelippo, Stone, Hutton, Kooyenga, Craig, Kapenga, Kuglitsch, LeMahieu, Jagler, Ballweg, Bernier, Knodl, Pridemore and Kleefisch.