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)
This evening, the public will have a unique opportunity to view the work of the International Baccalaureate (IB) Visual Art students at MPS’ Ronald Reagan College Preparatory High School. The students, who participated in the two-year intensive visual arts program, have each created a 30-piece body of work with a central theme and have chosen [...]
Seventy-nine Milwaukee Public Schools students have won national honors for their German language skills from the American Association of Teachers of German. More than two dozen of the MPS students – 27 – received Gold Certificates for scoring in the top 10% nationally on this school year’s AATG National German Exam. Another 30 MPS [...]
Why vote in this race? There are almost a million reasons. If you are writing a column and you want people to take a nap while pretending to read it, try writing about the exciting race for Superintendent of Schools in Wisconsin. But once you shake your head to rid it of exciting thoughts you [...]
Ten MPS students and educators have been awarded Herb Kohl Educational Foundation scholarships and fellowships. Five students won $1000 Kohl Foundation Initiative Scholarships, which recognize “exceptional initiative in the classroom” and “strong promise for succeeding in college and beyond.” The winning MPS students are:Aaliyah Barnes – Samuel Morse/John Marshall School for the Gifted and TalentedArieal [...]
Sarah Carr, a former Milwaukee education reporter who moved to New Orleans in 2009 to cover schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, sees some similarities in both troubled public education systems. “I think they both have their strengths and their weaknesses,” Carr said in a recent interview. “I think both places have great and [...]
We often rue the loss of old buildings. Especially ones that were near and dear to us. And no buildings fit that bill more than schools, where we grew up. It’s a shame, for example, that schools like Jefferson (at Juneau Village), Jackson in the Third Ward, 18th Street (now a parking lot) and 21st [...]
The Grammy Foundation has awarded Milwaukee Public Schools’
“What do you think makes up a neighborhood?” Donesha Jackson, a junior at Bradley Tech High School, asked me this yesterday as we stood on the school’s west lawn. I couldn’t even begin to answer her. But this is the question that she and 34 other students from Bradley Tech and Bay View high schools [...]
If you watch this space, you know I’ve written a bit about vintage schoolhouses. Those pieces have usually focused a bit on history, a bit on architecture and on the building’s public spaces. As a kid, at P.S. 199 in Brooklyn, the lower levels of the school were entirely off limits to students and thus [...]
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
Milwaukee Public Schools now has an “official” policy banning bullying at MPS schools. And we thought fighting was already a suspension-earning offense, but bullying apparently stops short of that. According to the new policy, “Bullying is defined as deliberate or intentional behavior using words or actions, intended to cause fear, humiliation, intimidation, harm, or social [...]
OK, maybe school finance isn’t sexy, but it’s really important, as a few hundred angry taxpayers indicated recently to the Milwaukee school board, so bear with me here. I was in Madison Thursday, testifying before the state senate’s education committee in favor a resolution that would set a deadline for a complete overhaul of the [...]
Being a board member for a large urban school district means I don’t get to brag too much. Our public school district faces seemingly endless challenges, and in spite of the hard work of our staff and parents, some of our schools still fail too many children. This job definitely keeps me humble. Actually, I’m [...]
Friday afternoon, like so many afternoons since I’ve had children, all my plans were derailed by the needs of a kid. This one, whom I’ll call “D,” is my friend’s former foster son. D is a charming, brilliant 19-year-old, one of those smart people who never quite clicks with school. D was my friend’s student [...]
Seymour Lefco, who was, among many other, much more important things, a supporter of my school board work, died on Monday. I was at his house once, when I was campaigning. He had already heard about me and given my campaign a check, so I guess I got his vote. He invited me in and [...]
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