voucher program. The program enables students to receive public funding to study at parochial and other private schools free of cost. The 2006−07 school year marked the first time that more than $100 million was paid in vouchers, as 26% of Milwaukee students receive public funding to attend schools outside the MPS system. If the voucher program alone were considered a school district, it would mark the sixth-largest district in Wisconsin. Under Wisconsin state law, the Milwaukee school board is one of several entities that can authorize charter schools in the city. Other authorities that can authorize charter schools are the Milwaukee City Council, the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, and the Milwaukee Area Technical College Board. The first charter school in Milwaukee was the Highland Community School, a Montessori elementary school authorized by Milwaukee Public Schools in 1996. Schools An asterisk (*) indicates a charter school. K4-K schools Next Door Foundation School * K–8 schools Auer Ave. Elementary School Bay View Montessori School Luther Burbank Elementary School A.E. Burdick School Mary McLeod Bethune Academy Dr. Benjamin Carson Academy of Science George Washington Carver Academy of Mathematics and Science Cass St. School James Fenimore Cooper Elementary School Craig Montessori School Eighty-First St. Elementary School Fairview Public School Fernwood Montessori School Frederick J. Gaenslen School Hamlin Garland School U.S. Grant Elementary School Grantosa Dr. Elementary School Greenfield Bilingual School Hartford Ave. University School Oliver Wendell Holmes Elementary School Hopkins Lloyd Community School Humboldt Park School I.D.E.A.L. (Individualized Developmental Educational Approaches to Learning) School * Keefe Ave. Elementary School Martin Luther King Jr. School La Causa Charter School * Robert M. La Follette Elementary School Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Elementary School Manitoba Elementary School Maryland Ave. Montessori School Golda Meir School Ralph H. Metcalfe School Milwaukee Academy of Chinese Language Milwaukee College Prep–36th St. Campus * Milwaukee College Prep–38th St. Campus * Milwaukee College Prep–Lloyd St. Campus * Milwaukee College Prep Lola Rowe–North Campus * Milwaukee Environmental Sciences Academy * Milwaukee Parkside School for the Arts Milwaukee Sign Language School Alexander Mitchell Integrated Arts Elementary School Rogers St. Academy William T. Sherman Multicultural Arts Elementary School Albert Story School Henry David Thoreau Elementary School Trowbridge St. Elementary School Victory K8 and Milwaukee Italian Immersion School Vieau School (Escuela Vieau) Westside Academy Thurston Woods Campus Elementary School Elementary schools (grades K-5) Academy of Accelerated Learning Academia de Lenguaje y Bellas Artes (ALBA) * Louisa May Alcott