

The school’s board of directors claimed in a assertion that it was “surprised” to study of the suit.
“Over a 12 months in the past, we had prolonged discussions with the landlord and his lawyers and have been sure that the make any difference experienced been solved,” the statement claims. “As the elected representatives of the pupils, families, workers and neighborhood stakeholders of Milestone Democratic Faculty, we will be doing work diligently more than the coming days to get this problem resolved without destructive influence to the important get the job done of serving youth and households.”
Planet Vast Earth says Milestone signed a lease for 9,600 square feet of house at 2823 Index Road in Fitchburg. It was supposed to operate from Dec. 1, 2019, to Aug. 21, 2022, but the school’s board of administrators terminated it on June 2, 2020, just after the faculty could not obtain a contractor to make accessibility updates to the house for a lot less than $35,000, according to the go well with.
Milestone enrolled 21 students past university yr and is just one of a few independent charter colleges in Madison, and just one of 7 in the state, authorized by the UW System’s Business of Academic Possibility, an entity made by Republican lawmakers in 2015 to constitution impartial general public schools outdoors the auspices of area school districts.
[Editor’s note: This story has been updated to correct the number of schools currently authorized by the Office of Educational Opportunity. An earlier version used information from office’s website, which had not been updated.]
