PolitiFact sorts only some of the “truth” on voucher schools, leaves out key objections to program’s expansion
79 MPS students earn national German language awards
Private school voucher expansion: A growing taxpayer-funded entitlement
The Milwaukee Parental Choice Program: A Failure
Infinite Campus likely to be Wisconsin statewide school information system (Updated)
Let me begin by fully disclosing that I’m about to write about something that took place in my son’s classroom. However, my reason for writing this isn’t coming from the proud mom perspective. Instead, it’s to highlight a positive and meaningful project that happened in a Milwaukee Public School as a reminder that, despite all [...]
Milwaukee Public Schools’ Riverside University High School students and faculty are donating $60,000 to Milwaukee Habitat for Humanity today at the school’s “Swing into Spring” concert. For the past 12 years, students at Riverside High School, 1615 E. Locust St., have raised money to fund and sponsor the building of a Habitat home for a [...]
Beginning at 11 a.m. today in Madison, the Joint Committee on Finance goes into executive session on a number of items, but two of special interest to Milwaukee public school parents, students, employees and supporters. Those folks are concerned about the upcoming state budget cuts to education and the potential for a voucher program expanded [...]
If our tests stink, why aren’t we making them better? I tweeted that a few hours ago. So, you know I received today’s statement from the Dept. of Public Instruction with interest. The statement updates us on Wisconsin’s work with a consortium of 30 states to develop the components of a new system of assessments [...]
Because of retirements and other factors, MPS has a large number of
Today I learned that Target is giving Milwaukee Public Schools’ Forest Home Avenue Elementary School, 1516 W. Forest Home Ave., a school library makeover. That’s great news. Many older schools are in need of just this kind of boost.
Trowbridge Street School of Great Lakes Studies, 1943 E. Trowbridge St., in Bay View has been staring me in the face for years. Living in Bay View for six years, I walked past it regularly. But I never really looked at it. I saw it, certainly. How could anyone miss the sea of concrete behind [...]
At the start of May, Milwaukee’s
Many girls grow up being told they can pick any career and “be” anything that want. However, so many fields – particularly the STEM fields of science, technology engineering and math – continue to be male-dominated. To get young women inspired about these fields of study, St. Joan Antida High School partnered with the Milwaukee [...]
Two weeks into her career as a member of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, I finally got a chance to catch up with Meagan Holman, who has taken her seat representing the 8th District, via a means other than Facebook or Twitter. Talking over coffee at an East Side cafe, I asked her how [...]
Milwaukee Public Schools has nearly 10 public Montessori programs. That’s unheard of in public districts. And the schools are among MPS’ best. So, I join the community in saluting
Like me, it seems that quite a few other folks are curious about and fascinated by old school buildings. The response to my blogs about the Henry Koch-designed
Just because you never hear good things about Bradley Tech High School in Walker’s Point doesn’t mean there isn’t any. Perhaps the key to hearing positive news about Tech is looking beyond Milwaukee. (That’s kind of a sad commentary, isn’t it?) You could look at pages 30-33 of the latest issue of NYSE magazine – [...]
Looking at the Superintendent’s Fiscal Year 2012 Proposed Budget Overview released by MPS earlier this week, one line jumped out at me. That line says that the proposed budget, “begins the centralization process of school budgets to enable school leaders to spend more time on instructional leadership.” The first phase of this process, which is [...]
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