![]() ![]() In 2012, Rufus King International School – High School Campus was ranked the 130th best public high school in the nation, making it the top performing school in the state of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction in its 2011−12 School District Performance Report lists Milwaukee's Regular Diploma Graduation Rate at 66.2%. However, local journalists have cited school officials as lacking in motivation to improve the system. School District officials note declining funding as a catalyst to problems in the district. While overall reading and math proficiency rates are below the state average and below those of some other large city districts, the district did see some growth in scores in both subjects and both grades tested on the 2013 National Assessment of Educational Progress and on the 2012–13 state standardized tests, MPS students, on the whole, outperformed Milwaukee students receiving publicly funded vouchers to attend private schools. The district owns WYMS-FM (88.9), which airs an eclectic selection of music and is programmed by a local non-profit group via an LMA. Specialty programs in MPS include arts schools such as Milwaukee High School of the Arts career and technical education schools such as Lynde & Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School gifted and talented schools such as Golda Meir School International Baccalaureate and college prep high schools such as Rufus King International School - High School Campus, Riverside University High School and Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School language immersion schools including French, German, Italian, and Spanish immersion elementary schools and Milwaukee School of Languages for middle- and high-school students and a large number of Montessori schools. Milwaukee Public Schools' offerings include neighborhood schools, specialty schools and charter schools serving students as young as age 3 up through grade 12. The district includes all portions of Milwaukee in Milwaukee County, which means it includes almost all of Milwaukee. A publicly elected school board, the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, provides direction and oversight, with a superintendent heading the organization's administration. The Milwaukee Public Schools system is the one of the largest in the United States by enrollment. As of the 2015–16 school year, MPS served 75,568 students in 154 schools and had 9,636 full-time equivalent (FTE) staff positions. Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) is the largest school district in Wisconsin. Prior to joining Breakthrough, Kadeem was the Senior Director of Special Populations at Explore Schools in Brooklyn, New York, served as the special education director at the Equity Project Charter School in New York’s Washington Heights neighborhood, and taught special education for many years in the Bronx.43☀2′55″N 87★8′47″W / 43.04861°N 87.97972°W / 43.04861 -87.97972 There, he deepened and expanded Breakthrough’s impact through a nationally-recognized distance learning program, increasing diversity in the network’s hiring, partnering with families in a culturally-responsive way, and helping to steer the organization’s diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. Most recently, Kadeem worked as the Managing Director of Exceptional Student Education at Breakthrough Public Schools, a 12 school K-8 charter network. ![]() He went on to earn a Master’s Degree from Hunter College in Special Education, a Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership from the Bank Street School of Education, and he is currently working on his Educational Doctorate Degree in Leadership and Innovation from New York University. There, Kadeem discovered his passion for teaching through tutoring reformed drug addicts recently released from prison to take the GED. ![]() Teachers and adult mentors also played a large role in Kadeem’s trajectory, eventually helping him win a scholarship to an elite boarding high school, The Hotchkiss School, and go on to Princeton University. Kadeem’s youngest brother struggled with emotional management differences and inspired Kadeem to pursue special education instead of matriculating into Columbia Law School, where he was accepted after college. Having lost one brother to gun violence and another to prison, Kadeem understands firsthand the devastating consequences of a lack of educational opportunities for all kids. Kadeem grew up in Brooklyn, New York, the son of a single mother and the only one of four children to graduate from high school. ![]() Kadeem is living proof of the impact of exemplary educational opportunities. Kadeem Gill is the Executive Director of Rocketship Wisconsin, overseeing all aspects of our two Milwaukee schools. ![]()
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