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Meeting Date:
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1/30/2025 - 5:30 PM
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Category:
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NEW BUSINESS (FOR REFERRAL TO COMMITTEE UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED)
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Type:
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Action
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Subject:
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6. Action on the Request to Approve Modifications to the Three-Tier Busing Model
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Strategic Plan Compatibility Statement:
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Goal 3 Effective and Efficient Operations Goal 2 Student, Family and Community Engagement
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Attachments
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File Attachment:
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Background:
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April 2020, the Board passed a Three-Tier busing Model. The background information included the following: Annually, Milwaukee Public Schools provides transportation services to approximately 54,000 district, suburban, and private school students who live in Milwaukee, or if they participate in specialty programs such as Chapter 220, Homeless Education or Foster Placement Network Programs, in surrounding municipalities. The district also provides services for a variety of district-sponsored programs such as Head Start, Interscholastic Athletics, Community Assessment and Training Program (CATP), Learning Journeys, and Special Olympics. Chapter 121.54 of the Wisconsin Statutes spells out the provisions under which the school board of each district shall provide for the transportation of pupils, including establishment, administration, and scheduling of school bus routes. MPS Administrative Policy 4.04 further states that the Milwaukee Public Schools’ Transportation Services is to provide safe, adequate, efficient, and economical service to all eligible Milwaukee-resident students.
With the approval of the three-tier busing model, also came an approved three-tier bell schedule for MPS schools that is directly aligned to the three-tier busing model. The Administration is requesting a minor modification to the first-tier of the three-tier bell schedule to alleviate a compression issue that has occurred whereby there is insufficient time between tiers to run a school bus route and perform the loading or unloading process. This proposal does not request additional minutes to district staff’s workdays, nor add minutes to the student’s school day, it is simply a shift in start and end times for first tier schools to address the spacing needed between the bell schedule tiers. The change would adjust the start and end times of first-tier schools by 10 minutes. In doing this we would alleviate the compression issue.
The FY25 bell schedule currently has first-tier schools starting the school day at 7:25am. Dismissal for K5 schools on the first-tier bell schedule end the school day at 2:10pm, and K8 schools on the first-tier bell schedule end the school day at 2:25pm complying with minute requirements set by WI Department of Public Instruction.
The modified three-tier bell schedule being presented today, proposes the following times:
a. First Tier: 7:15a-2:00p K5
First Tier: 7:15a-2:15p K8
b. Second Tier: 8:00a-3:25p High School
c. Third Tier: 9:15a-4:00p K5
Third Tier: 9:10a-4:10p K8
Third Tier: 9:05a-4:15p Trad MS
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Fiscal Impact Statement:
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Implementation and Assessment Plan
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Upon Board approval, the Administration will begin communicating with families in February 2025 through letters sent to homes, as well as electronic communications via email, text, and voicemail, using contact information from the district’s student information system and the Parent Portal. Additionally, we will update school websites and district enrollment communications.
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Recommendation:
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The Administration requests that the Board approve the modified three-tier bell schedule, effective July 1, 2025, as outline in the attached documents.
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Approvals:
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Recommended By:
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Signed By:
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David Fifarek - Sr. Director Business & Transportation Services
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Signed By:
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Michael Harris - Interim Chief School Administration
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Signed By:
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Eduardo Galvan - Interim Superintendent
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