Carmen's proposed northwest-side school looks to fill need

Dr. Patricia Hoben is the founder of Carmen High School of Science and Technology, a south side charter school. The board that oversees Carmen has moved to open a new school on the city's northwest side in September 2013. Credit: Kristyna Wentz-Graff

Officials from south side public school feel they can provide a missing piece
By Jim McLaughlin of the Journal Sentinel​

​Patricia Hoben, a former Washington, D.C., science adviser, experimented with a different kind of school model when she founded Carmen High School of Science and Technology on Milwaukee's densely Latino south side.

The school has heightened grading policies, gives quarterly assessments on ACT standards, mandates college application boot camp over the summer, holds a January term to salvage credits or enrich high achievers, and requires four years of math, laboratory science, history and English.

Her five-year test yielded one of the best public schools in the city that don't require an entrance exam.

Like any good scientist, Hoben is hoping to replicate her results in a new school, this time on the mostly African-American northwest side.

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