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)
As Milwaukee Public Schools’ communications director Roseann St. Aubin announces her departure, we offer a fond farewell. Like most of you, I first “met” St. Aubin when she was a local broadcast news personality. After stints in the Department of City Development and working for then-Mayor John Norquist, St. Aubin moved to MPS, where she’s [...]
What was he thinking? A teacher in Georgia tried to blend math and history and got himself in really hot water. Third grade teacher Luis Rivera at Beaver Ridge Elementary School in Gwinnett County
Barry Manilow is donating a musical instrument to Milwaukee Public Schools, and he’s offering free tickets to his Aug. 4 show to anyone who does the same. The hit crooner kicked off his musical instrument drive for MPS with the donation of a Yamaha piano, but he’s giving even more back to Milwaukee. Manilow fans [...]
Yeah, I think I made up that word, disserves. But I mean it; this new plan to use NAEP cut scores to grade schools and students on our state test would be a tremendous disservice. As many of you may know, Wisconsin was granted its waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind law a [...]
Here we go again … the state legislature has created the Special Committee on Improving Educational Opportunities in High School. The committee met for the first time on July 16. It has an impressive list of members and invited speakers who know what they are talking about when it comes to what employers want vs. [...]
Parents who can afford to send their children to private school often choose a Montessori education. MPS is making Montessori education public; accessible to everyone. MPS has been offering Montessori education since the mid-1970s. We are expanding this year by growing MacDowell at Juneau Campus and opening a new school in the old Tippecanoe building. [...]
GE Healthcare and Milwaukee School of Engineering have teamed up to provide middle school girls with a week-long workshop focused on science, technology, engineering and math starting Monday, July 16. The week-long GE Girls at MSOE program will provide 25 middle school girls from the Waukesha School District an opportunity to discover career paths in [...]
FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A team of more than 40 teachers, principals and administrators from Milwaukee Public Schools, as well as business leaders, will contribute their knowledge, interact with national education leaders, and enhance their understanding of major changes coming to the classroom, the GE Foundation announced Tuesday. The GE Foundation will underwrite the cost of [...]
It’s an indisputable fact: Public education is the great leveler in our economy and our society. If we put in the resources up front we will get the results we all want: Successful young adults, an economy that works, and a civil society we can be proud of. At the very time Wisconsin’s students need [...]
We are counting the days until my son begins college more than 1,000 miles away from home. Exciting for him … not so much for me. Don’t get me wrong. I am thrilled that he will be attending college in another large city, filled with wild nightlife, drugs, alcohol, beautiful co-eds, a massive football stadium, [...]
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