To increase the number of students attending schools within the Milwaukee Public School system, the district established the Milwaukee Public Schools Neighborhood Schools Initiative (NSI), a district wide planning and construction program that examined the school facilities with scrutiny.

"This comprehensive initiative included a level of community input that was unprecedented in the district's history," said Sheryl Scott, business development for prime architect PACE Architects, S.C. Input gathered for the NSI came from many community meetings; door-to-door, telephone and parent information surveys and focus groups.

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