RACINE â Hope for a proposed Racine charter school, which still does not have a designated location, is beginning to look bleak.
After a review by the Racine Unified School District of its facilities, it was determined there are no usable spaces for Racine Scholars Academy. The review was presented to the Racine Unified School Board at its work session on Monday, which was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Racine Scholars Academy is a school that has been tentatively approved by the RUSD Board and is planned to serve students from Pre-K through fifth grade. But it needs a space within the district to operate. Two months ago, RUSDâs administration said it was unable to find a suitable spot for the charter school, to which the School Board by a split vote ordered the administration to look again.
Dear Community Members:
The Racine Unified School District is considering launching a new charter school, the Racine Scholars Academy, in 2021. Fifty-two years ago, Racine was selected to be part of the largest experiment in the history of education. Already seeing gains from the fast-growing Head Start program, educational leaders in the War on Poverty, proposed a massive experiment into what educational strategies worked best in grades K-3. Ten different approaches were identified to address the needs of the âculturally disadvantaged.â Each model had 4-8 sites, with control groups. The ten different educational models fell into three categories.
1. Affective Skills Model: This model, the Psychodynamic approach, considers social and emotional goals to be key for optimal development of the whole child.
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RACINE â With a February deadline at the forefront of organizersâ minds, a group is pushing the Racine Unified School Board to take the next steps in what has been a three-year project to create a new charter school in Racine.
Members of the Racine Scholars Academy governance board came before The Racine Unified School Board on Dec. 7 to update RUSDâs board on progress.
School plan
Racine Scholars Academy is a school that has been approved by the RUSD board but does not have a location yet. It is planned to serve students from Pre-K through fifth grade.
The plan would be to start with pre-kindergarten classes through second grade in the first year, then add one grade each year: two classrooms per grade level. Students who apply would be admitted to the school through a lottery system if there are more than 50 students at a grade level. The overall school population would cap at about 324.