Teachers Dedicated to Service: Dr. Catherine Ferderbar
In mid-October, five area teachers were honored by the Education Deans of Greater Milwaukee for their work in service learning, “… a form of…
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C is for Cool!
Students can sometimes be the very best advocates for the teaching profession. Here’s a few shout-outs to MPS teachers from none other than their…
Read MoreB is for BEST TEACHER!
Students can sometimes be the very best advocates for the teaching profession. Here’s a few shout-outs to MPS teachers from none other than their…
Read MoreMPS meeting on Dover St. School building leaves questions unanswered
The excess space owned by the Milwaukee Public Schools has been in the news a lot lately. Wednesday in Madison, for example, the state…
Read MoreNothing good happened at JFC all-nighter for Wisconsin’s public schools
Nothing good happens in Wisconsin’s Capitol between bar time and breakfast. Majority members of the Joint Finance Committee (JFC) proved that last Wednesday in…
Read MoreCommunity and Montessori Come Together in Milwaukee
Sharing a beautiful blog posted by the documentary filmmakers of “Building the Pink Tower” It was May and snowing in Wisconsin. Jan and I…
Read MoreFund public schools, not entitlements for voucher and for-profit charter schools
Guest blog by Bambi Statz, PhD In 2000, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court established an educational standard in Vincent v. Voight which provides that…
Read MoreUse revenue increase to fully fund Wisconsin’s K-12 public schools
Wisconsin now projects a healthy increase in revenue over the next two years. Those hundreds of millions of dollars in additional resources must be…
Read MoreWisconsin’s grandparents understand that vouchers don’t work
Grandparents understand the importance of funding public schools, too. Wisconsin is marching inexorably down a path toward two separate publicly funded education systems…
Read MorePrivate school voucher expansion: A growing taxpayer-funded entitlement
by John Forester Many observers have called Gov.Scott Walker’s proposal to expand private school vouchers bad education policy. I agree. Today I would like…
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