1 Waukesha STEM Academy, Saratoga Campus Waukesha, Wis. James Murray, principal of the Waukesha STEM Academy’s Saratoga campus, leads tour groups through the school regularly. “Visitors are sometimes unsure of what they’re seeing at first,” he said. “It looks like a CSI episode in here, between the physical structure and students, teachers and parents scurrying around. It seems like too many moving parts, but everyone knows what they’re doing... there is a lot going on behind the scenes to make everything cohesive and click.” The Saratoga campus of Waukesha STEM Academy is a proficiency-based, blended education charter school that was established in 2010 in Wisconsin’s Waukesha County. Serving grades six through eight, the public school focuses on science, technol

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