In The Classroom

For Michelle Roberts, the school closings for cold weather this month have been complicated in multiple ways. First and foremost, as a single mom,…

Milwaukee Public Schools’ Urban Schools Aquaponics initiative has received a two-year, $98,000 contribution from AT&T and the NEA Foundation. The new funding will expand…

Last month I wrote about the launch of the new high school at Milwaukee Public Schools’ high-performing and in-demand Golda Meir School in Brewers…

It’s been a rough year for basketball fans in Milwaukee. After spending and seemingly setting their preseason sights yet again on the seventh playoff…

Dear Wall Street Journal, It is nice to see the Journal taking an interest in Milwaukee’s doings again; it has been more than a…

Going beyond the dream of riding a bike, students in Bay View Middle School will design and build one, as part of the curriculum…

You could say that Milwaukee’s French Immersion School, located in the former Steuben Junior High School, 2360 N. 52nd St., has taken a grand…

The latest disclosure of what looks like a rip-off of Wisconsin taxpayer money used for the school voucher system has got to be another…

You probably heard­­ a voucher school, LifeSkills Academy, closed last week. That story, a surprisingly common one, is usually just a local story, but…

This morning, Milwaukee Public Schools and the Marcus Center for the Performing Arts honored teacher Katherine Katter at a surprise event in her classroom…