Two Bilingual Teachers for Every MPS High School
With an influx of immigrant students to Milwaukee Public Schools, it is more imperative than ever that each high school in MPS has at least two bilingual education teachers to support our multilingual learners. Milwaukee Public Schools currently has 9,900 students that are classified as English Learners but has only 27 schools offering a bilingual education program ( https://mps.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/en/Schools/Bilingual-Education-in-MPS.htm ). Students emigrating to the United States that end up in Milwaukee may choose to go to their neighborhood MPS school, which means that many multilingual learners will end up in a school that does not offer a bilingual education program. As a current MPS high school teacher, I have two students in my English 9 classes that are classified as English learners. My school does not have a bilingual education program and only has one ESL teacher that visits a few times per month be...