A teenager said she was attacked and beaten by three classmates near East High School.

Two 16-year-old girls and a 15-year-old girl were arrested last week in connection with the assault.

The victim, Alana Krupp, 15, said she knows the girls involved but maintains she wasn't talking trash about them.

The incident happened last Wednesday at the intersection of Fourth Street and Winnebago Street a block south of East High School.

Krupp arrived at the bus stop like any other day, but in a few seconds an otherwise OK freshman year at East High School was turned upside down when she was confronted by the girls.

"She said, 'I wanted to fight you.' And I said, 'I'm not going to fight you, because there's no point in it. I never did anything to you,'" Krupp said. "She hit me in the face, and I got pulled down to the ground by my hair."

Officials with the Madison Metropolitan School District are revealing new recommendations on how to close the achievement gap in city schools.

Superintendent Dan Nerad said the new plan, which includes a focus on improving literacy, the expansion of AVID/TOPS programs to middle schools, a mentor academy to help students find role models in the community and other measures, will cost less.

The original plan cost about $105 million over five years. The revised plan's price tag is $55.6 million over the same time period, administrators said. The lower cost is attributed to several initiatives being pushed back, such as extending the school day.

"If we're going to make a difference, we're going to need to invest," Nerad said. "On the other hand, as we started working through the final plan, we realized that we also need to balance this with the needs of the community going forward, and it needs to be a sustainable plan."

Officers responded to Penn Park early Saturday morning after a fight between two groups pushed a man to started firing a handgun.

The incident occurred at about 8:15 p.m.

Madison police said it did not appear that anyone was struck by a bullet, but they did find impact points on a nearby apartment building.

Everyone involved in the fight had left the park by the time police arrived.

No one in the apartment building was injured, police said.