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
Use revenue increase to fully fund Wisconsin’s K-12 public schools
Last year, Philly rockers
Archive for September, 2011
MPS facilities meeting draws big crowd at Reagan
This week MPS held a series of public sessions at schools around the city as part of its
Budget cuts increase challenges to art education
As tightening budgets have seen the widespread loss of art teachers across the district, Maryland Avenue Montessori is an example of an MPS school that has found a way to maintain art classes for its kids. The solution is a welcome, if not perfect, scenario: the classes won’t be taught by art educators, the funding [...]
Waldorf education provides alternative approach to learning
Waldorf eduction is an approach to learning based on the philosophies of Austrian philosopher Rudolph Steiner. There is one Waldorf school in Milwaukee, Tamarack Waldorf School, 1150 E. Brady St., and another in Pewaukee, Prairie Hill Waldorf School. Both schools go through eighth grade, but at this point, there is not a Waldorf high school [...]
Teacher mourns loss of teacher
This weekend, I came across this post in my Facebook feed. It’s from Dale Weiss, a teacher at my sons’ school, La Escuela Fratney, to the school’s longtime, beloved art teacher, Sue Browne, who was let go this summer due to budget restraints. It reads: “I went into the art room on Friday and got [...]
Public Policy Forum report on public education is out
While I’m at School of Career and Technical Education listening to U.S. Dept. of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, you can check out the latest public education report from the Public Policy Forum. “For the past 25 years, the Public Policy Forum has compiled and analyzed data from southeast Wisconsin’s public school districts to produce an [...]
U.S. Ed Secretary Duncan stops in Milwaukee
You could tell by heavy police presence that something was up at the old Custer High School on Sherman Boulevard this morning. But, if you didn’t know that
Living with cuts, a group of teachers works to connect
Now that school is back in session, Wisconsin educators are again focused tightly on the kids in their classrooms. But being back amid the chalk dust has made the state’s cuts to schools even more real for teachers, administrators, parents and students. So, a group of teachers in the
Community asked to weigh in on MPS facilities plan
All summer long, Milwaukee Public Schools has been working on a new
Local parents pack creative lunchbox cuisine
Parents who want to pack kids’ lunches that go beyond small bags of corn chips and pre-packaged granola bars sometimes struggle to find easy-to-eat alternatives to the usual lunchbox fare. So in honor of the start of the school year and a commitment to healthy midday eating, OnMilwaukee.com reached out to dozens of local parents [...]
On the first day of school, some welcome news
School began today for Milwaukee Public Schools and other districts in the area, too. I was at two MPS schools this morning and the mood was hopeful and bright. Despite the battles between politicians and educators and administrators, everyone was smiling and hopeful (though some kids looked a little shell-shocked). At Albert Kagel E. School [...]
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