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
PRESS RELEASE – U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Education Jason Snyder will visit Milwaukee Public Schools’ Hamilton High School, 6215 W. Warnimont Ave., Wednesday to witness the school’s turnaround efforts aided by federal School Improvement Grant (SIG) awards. The SIG efforts, in place this school year, are building upon progress Hamilton has seen. The school [...]
A Milwaukee Public Schools junior has an impressive number to add to his college applications: 36. Rufus King International School student Zhenrui Liao earned the highest possible score on the ACT college admission and placement exam. It’s a rare feat. Last school year, just 704 of the 1.6 million students who took the test received [...]
Milwaukee Succeeds, the cradle-to-career educational partnership that aims to improve educational outcomes for all students in Milwaukee, has hired Mike Soika as its first director. In his role as director, Soika will lead and direct the work of the partnership by continuing to recruit and engage partner organizations, oversee the work of the various committees [...]
Rethinking Schools, the Milwaukee-based education reform outfit that encourages improvements in America’s schools through pursuit of social justice, has a new book out. Pencils Down is an anthology of short texts about tests, about how, when, and why American students get tested and the effects of that overwhelming fact of American educational life. I began [...]
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Have you ever heard about something so absurd that you can’t quite believe that it even happened? Bernie Madoff comes to mind for me—I still can’t quite figure out how he pulled off such a scam. I get the same feeling when I think about what has been happening in Wisconsin. Only this time, it’s [...]
More than 2,500 students from schools across the city will sing and perform with one voice Wednesday evening as Milwaukee Public Schools’ Biennial Music Festival opens to non-MPS schools for the first time in its 88-year history. The 44th Biennial Music Festival is set for 6:30 p.m. Wednesday evening at the U.S. Cellular Arena in [...]
Students at Brookfield Central High School and Brookfield East High School are the first in southern Wisconsin to use a high-tech web-based platform to bring complex financial concepts to life for today’s digital generation. The interactive platform – provided by at no cost to the schools by Spring Bank and EverFi, Inc. – uses the [...]
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