Description
Alliance is a teacher-led school, headed by Lead Teacher and co-founder Tina Owen. The enrollment for the 2009-2010 school year is approximately 175. Founded in 2005 the school was located on Galena Street but moved to Walnut Street for the 2009-2010 school year to an older building which has housed a number of other Milwaukee Public School projects over the decades. It operates on a year-round school calendar, unlike most Milwaukee Public Schools. While Alliance is a charter school, employees are members of the appropriate MPS unions.
Alliance has been studied by universities in New York and New Mexico and will be part of a basis for a reproducible model for safe and bully-free schools for all students.
Alliance has numerous outreach programs for students, such as an "Art and Social Justice" program headed up by Alliance's dedicated art teacher.
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