ICS Supported Scholarship Programs
ASPIRE: Academic Scholarship Program for Indians Reaching for Education
The ASPIRE program is available for students enrolled at ICS during the 2003-2004 school year. Commencing with Kindergarten 4 student enrollment for the school year 2004-2005 and those Kindergarten 4 classes in the years thereafter, ICS shall not commit to provide a private high School scholarship for any such student. Further, any child who was not presently enrolled at ICS by the end of the 2003-2004 school year is ineligible for a private high school scholarship.
The scholarship program offers 8th grade graduates the opportunity to attend a private high school of their choice. ICS will contribute financially to cover the cost of tuition and books, as long as the students meet the established criteria. ICS strongly encourages Indian students to set academic goals, envision dreams and ASPIRE to achieve their fullest potential.
ICS caps its budget for eighth grade private high school scholarships to a total of $105,000.00 per year for both tuition and books, regardless as to whether such costs rise in the years thereafter. This cap is applicable to each eighth grade class as it makes its way entirely through completion of high school. The final authority for determining scholarship eligibility and the amount allocable to an individual student shall rest with the ICS Director of Education. Unless it would cause no disadvantage to any other scholarship eligible ICS student from the same eighth grade graduating class, in no event shall the payment for tuition and books for any eighth grade scholarship recipient commencing with the graduating class of 2003-2004 exceed $7,000.00/year, regardless as to which year in high school that student has attained.
Every ICS eighth grade student who requests an ICS private high school scholarship must prove to the satisfaction of the Director of Education that they have made their best efforts to seek alternative sources of either partial and/or complete funding. Throughout the period that an ICS graduate applies for ICS scholarship funding, funds shall not be awarded unless proof is provided that the student is ineligible for a publicly funded school voucher program.
Interested parents and/or guardians of eighth grade students may contact the Guidance Counselor for further information. Guidance Counselor/Home School Liaison (414) 525-6191.
Our commitment to educating our children does not end after the student graduates ICS. ICS also supports the UWM Foundation, the UW Foundation–American Indian Alumni Scholarship Fund, and MATC.
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee - Urban American Indian Teacher Training Program
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), School of Education in consortium with the Indian Community School, The Spotted Eagle School and the Milwaukee Public Schools trains new American Indian teachers to work in multi-cultural urban public school settings and multi-tribal urban American Indian Schools where there exist significant American Indian student populations.
There is a significant need for more American Indians to be trained to be teachers in the urban area and to be trained in consideration of the unique cultural and experiential characteristics of Indian students within the context of a large multi-cultural community and student school populations including Indian school settings within urban areas.
The UWM Collaborative Teacher Training Program for Urban Communities is designed to broadly meet the need for teachers in the urban area, providing a well-designed framework and approach to teacher education to which the significant and growing Indian education resources of the members of the consortium are added, to focus on the training of American Indians to be teachers in urban schools with large American Indian student populations.
ICS has four (4) graduates from the UAITTP under contract for the 2005-2006 school year.