Politics

Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele and Opportunity Schools and Partnership Program Commissioner Dr. Demond Means will today, June 16, at 11 a.m., hold a…

In 2012, I wrote for SchoolMattersMKE about what I call the “resource gap.” At the time, much hay was being made about a US Census…

The following is an op-ed from Wauwatosa Support Our Schools (SOS) president Mary Young and Women Committed to an Informed Community co-chairs Marva Herndon…

Last week, State Rep. Kathy Bernier, a western Wisconsin Republican, stormed out of a “breakfast with legislators” meeting with school officials from the Eau Claire…

Demond Means, who was recently appointed commissioner of the Opportunity Schools Partnership Program (OSPP), said additional financial investment in education will be necessary to…

Saying a Republican is against unions, especially public sector unions, is kind of like saying the sky is blue or water is wet. It’s…

Defying expectations, I will write nothing this week about mass shootings. Instead, I’ll be writing about something that doesn’t happen every day: bi-partisan Congressional action on an…

The Milwaukee Board of School Directors and Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) administrators have signaled that they soon will take a major step toward becoming…

Last year, after Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent Gregory Thornton exited stage left for Baltimore, I suggested the district hire Mequon-Thiensville schools chief Demond Means…

If Wisconsin were a comic book, the evil schemes of the bad guys would revolve around the destruction of this once-proudly progressive state’s public…