In The Classroom

I want to make sure the landmark Garfield Avenue School – designed by famed Milwaukee architect Henry Koch — survives. So, if I had half a mil, I’d…

Madison’s non-partisan Forward Institute released a report Monday that looked at education funding across the state of Wisconsin and found that over the past…

When school opened for the majority of MPS schools this week, most every program had a new 30-hour-a-week parent coordinator paraprofessional on staff to…

Lately, I’ve been posting historical photos of Maryland Avenue Montessori School to the Old Eastsiders group page on Facebook and garnering lots of great…

Taking something of a page from the book of the district’s successful public Montessori schools, all MPS schools this year will use a staggered…

Today, more than 2,500 current and retired GE employees, plus about 150 other volunteers, are walking into 16 Milwaukee Public Schools and four Waukesha…

All MPS students will now have access to free breakfast and lunch at school. Over the summer, Milwaukee Public Schools was accepted into a…

Three years ago, Milwaukee Public Schools decided — for better or for worse — to standardize its school supplies lists by grade level.  It…

Last week, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker finally got off the fence and called for the state’s lawmakers to “repeal Common Core and replace it…

We all have fond memories of summer fun on school playgrounds (don’t we?). This year, Milwaukee school playgrounds are back open offering a wide…