Milwaukee Considers Expanding Gifted Program to High School

Alan Borsuk:

What if Milwaukee's Samuel Morse Middle School expanded its programs for the gifted and talented to cover sixth through 12th grades?

What if the whole program were moved into the Marshall High School building, giving it more room, and maybe even taking the Marshall name?

Milwaukee Public Schools leaders are doing a lot of thinking along those lines, prodded by a strong desire by Morse Principal Rogers Onick and others at his school to expand into high school programming.

"There currently are discussions with the staff at Morse Middle School about relocating," MPS Superintendent William Andrekopoulos said. "There seems to be some interest in pursuing that."

Behind those cautious statements lies a potentially bold change in MPS. Onick says there is no high school in Wisconsin whose entire program is aimed at gifted and talented students.

And if Morse took that route, it could have an impact on high schools such as Rufus King and Riverside, generally college-bound programs that are frequently the choice of Morse graduates.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 15, 2007 5:51 AM
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