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)
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 [...]
Question: When is $129 million not $129 million? Answer: When it is the additional aid Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker promised to send to the state’s public schools. Despite the Governor’s claimed increase for 2013-15─an anemic and inadequate one percent even if true─it is really only $39 million …. a paltry half-percent increase or $44.83 per [...]
The world is full of beautiful, unexpected collisions. Take for example the upcoming “After School’s Out” benefit concert at The Hotel Foster on Friday, March 22. The show, organized by Alice Cooper bassist Chuck Garric and his better half – and OnMilwaukee.com contributor – Lindsay Garric was put together to raise money for
Milwaukee area students are being recognized by the American Association of Teachers of German for its students’ outstanding performance on the annual National German Exam. Rufus King High School had four juniors and 13 seniors winning the Gold Certificate, placing at or above the 90th percentile nationwide. The Milwaukee School of Languages had five juniors [...]
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 [...]
For anyone who lived on the North Side during that special time, the name “Bronzevillle” is spoken with reference. It’s the name of the legendary Milwaukee African-American community in the mid-20th Century that is remembered fondly in stark contrast to the current state of some black neighborhoods. Bronzeville was a small mecca of thriving black [...]
Milwaukee Public Schools’ Frederick J. Gaenslen School, 1250 E. Burleigh St., has received a national award. Gaenslen won the Project Lead the Way’s (
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 [...]
School board elections take place on April and in order to help you make a more informed decision at the polls in this race, which often flies under the radar, we’ve asked each of the seven candidates – running for four seats on the 9-member board (there are eight regional districts and one at-large seat) [...]
It’s budget season in Wisconsin, which means two things: One, the histrionics are dialed up to 11 (j’accuse, you say, and you’re right); and two, everyone I know and care about in education in Wisconsin is furious. Two years ago, Governor Scott Walker’s first biennial budget was devastating to schools. In it, the revenue cap [...]
Yesterday, I had the chance to sit down and have a cup of coffee with three members of a group I’d never heard of before, but I’m glad I do now. They make up the leadership of Running Rebels, a 32-year-old vision of its founder, Victor Barnett. Along with his co-executive director and wife, Dawn, [...]
School board elections take place on April and in order to help you make a more informed decision at the polls in this race, which often flies under the radar, we’ve asked each of the seven candidates – running for four seats on the 9-member board (there are eight regional districts and one at-large seat) [...]
In an unusual Sunday morning release, Governor Scott Walker unveiled a funding proposal for K-12 public education that will weaken schools and diminish opportunities for students. “Two years ago the Governor took $1.6 billion in educational opportunities away from kids,” said Tom Beebe, project director of Opportunity to Learn-Wisconsin. “Those tragic cuts came on the [...]
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 [...]
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