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)
Milwaukee Public Schools’ 68th Street School and 81st Street School programs will merge in a two-step process unanimously approved by the Milwaukee Board of School Directors Thursday night. We have covered the process of this merger heavily at SchoolMattersMKE. Search the site to find numerous articles about it. The programs will come together to serve [...]
(PRESS RELEASE) – Milwaukee Public Schools students largely mirrored the year-to-year change seen across Wisconsin in statewide test results released Tuesday. Students in Milwaukee Public Schools also posted higher proficiency rates than students using publicly funded vouchers to attend private schools, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, though the figures show much work [...]
How do you know it’s spring? Is it the birds, the crocuses (croci?), or March Madness? No–it’s that the first list of next fall’s school principal vacancies is in the Milwaukee Public Schools is out. Last year around this time, School Matters MKE’s own Bobby Tanzilo documented thoroughly the significant upheaval in school leadership positions [...]
In City Year Milwaukee at Northwest Secondary School, we hosted a week long event entitled “Getting Live in the Library.” We held the event in hopes of promoting the school library to the students. We invited external guests, the Milwaukee Public Library and the Milwaukee Urban Ecology Center, to the school’s library to engage students [...]
I am one of the parents praising the “bold” steps taken by the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA) leadership in their willingness to open their contracts for discussion that could aid in the efforts to funnel more resources into our classrooms. According to this
Back in the day when I was an MTEA union rep for my school, “We can’t afford it” was a commonplace bargaining strategy from MPS administration. There was even one time that then-Superintendent Bill Andrekopoulos confronted me after a town hall meeting, wagged his finger in my face, and scolded me: “We can’t afford it!” [...]
The racist, juvenile and ignorant commentary that flooded Twitter and Facebook following the Germantown victory over Rufus King in the WI-State Boys High School basketball tournament has awakened the sleeping giant – students, alum, parents, boosters and community members who support Milwaukee Public Schools are reacting and not one car has been set on fire [...]
Scott Walker is like the feudal magistrate who destroys the dam, floods the valley and then criticizes the villagers for not stockpiling enough sandbags. Dealing with the aftermath of Walker’s horrific cuts has been devastating to our public schools and to the community. And teachers have been at the forefront of the struggle to stand [...]
Recently, Tae Kwon Do master Chan Lee, one of 200 certified bully experts in the United States, created a free anti-bullying “tool kit” for parents that features video lessons and interactive exercises. The kit is available on Chan’s
State Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Tony Evers and MPS Superintendent Dr. Gregory Thornton agreed Monday night to work with Common Ground to improve Milwaukee Public Schools’ Supplemental Education Services tutoring program.
City Year Milwaukee will help students at Milwaukee Public Schools’ South Division High School get ready for college and careers with a week-long series of events starting Monday afternoon. “It’s great to see our partners stepping up to complement our efforts to get students ready for college and careers,” Superintendent Gregory Thornton said. This school [...]
Numerous Milwaukee area high school students earned a Gold Certificate’s for the 2012 AATG National German Exam this past Thursday. The American Association of Teachers of German offers its National German Exam annually. The students placed at or above the 90th percentile nationwide, which fulfills an eligibility requirement for Study Trip Awards granted by the [...]
Milwaukee Board of School Directors President Michael Bonds will convene another special Board session to discuss youth violence in the city, Saturday, March 10, from 9 to 11:30 a.m. in the auditorium at MPS Central Services, 5225 W. Vliet St. A similar session took place on Tuesday, Feb. 28. That meeting drew a large crowd. [...]
Notre Dame Middle School, 1420 W. Scott St., in the southwestern corner of Walker’s Point, will open a K5-4 program in August at St. Patrick Parish school, seven blocks away at 1115 S. 7th St. The co-ed program, which will serve as a feeder program for the all-girls Notre Dame, opens with two K5 and two [...]
On Thursday, March 8 you can help make an impact in our community. You also can sample a new black bean burger at AJ Bombers, 1241 N. Water St. Yep, it’s a
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