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
Director Michael Bonds was unanimously re-elected Tuesday evening as president of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors for the 2013-14 Board year. Director Meagan Holman was unanimously elected vice president. She replaces Director Larry Miller in that role. The Tuesday administrative meeting was the first Board meeting for newly-elected Board directors Tatiana Joseph, who represents [...]
Hi, kids. Remember me? Yeah, yeah, long time no blog–in no small part because of what’s been going on at My School. After a few years of slow but steady but slow progress,
Lately I’ve written very little about Montessori in Milwaukee Public Schools. It’s not for the lack of activity and it’s not for the lack of passion. In fact, the opposite. I’ve been too passionate and too active – serving on a committee working on a plan to expand public Montessori in Milwaukee – to write [...]
Since the Milwaukee Board of School Directors gave MPS superintendent Dr. Gregory Thornton
When the educational program at Dover Street School moved at the end of the last school year to a nearby building it shares with the Tippecanoe program, the 1889-vintage Bay View school building is the site of a planned neighborhood arts center. According creative director Kellie Krawczyk,
There were 20 items on last night’s
By now you may have heard of the Milwaukee Public Schools and OnMilwaukee.com partnership to create the Milwaukee Classroom Catalyst. The site (you can see a quick explanation at this
I can’t honestly say I didn’t see it coming. In fact, when we learned at our school that MPS would trim funding for K3 by about a third for the upcoming year, some parents – including me – even discussed whether or not it was possible to ask families who could afford to pay for [...]
Two weeks into her career as a member of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, I finally got a chance to catch up with Meagan Holman, who has taken her seat representing the 8th District, via a means other than Facebook or Twitter. Talking over coffee at an East Side cafe, I asked her how [...]
Last night on Vliet Street, Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent Gregory Thornton and the Board of School Directors sketched out what Thornton called a “worst case scenario” for next year’s school budget. On top of the already-projected loss of $13 million in state funding — and tens of millions of dollars in federal funds — for [...]
School board elections take place on April and in District 8 there are three candidates and, therefore, a primary on Feb. 15. 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 11 candidates — running for five [...]
School board elections take place on April and in District 8 there are three candidates and, therefore, a primary on Feb. 15. 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 11 candidates — running for five [...]
School board elections take place on April and in District 8 there are three candidates and, therefore, a primary on Feb. 15. 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 11 candidates — running for five [...]
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