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Education: Milwaukee School Board Debates Budget
Rufus King. Photo by Christopher Hillard. School budgets are never easy, even when there is additional federal pandemic funding to help pay for needs. That is what the Milwaukee school board found out...
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K-12 Education: How Did MPS Do During the Pandemic?
Milwaukee Public Schools Office of School Administration, 5225 W. Vliet St. Photo courtesy of Milwaukee Public Schools. There was something for everyone when the Milwaukee school administration...
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K-12 Education: MPS Faces Teacher, Staff Shortage
Riverwest Elementary School, 2765 N. Fratney St. File photo by Dave Reid. Milwaukee Public Schools faces a shortage of teachers and other educators that may involve as many as 600 positions. Figures...
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K-12 Education: Virtual Schooling Wasn’t a Failure
E-learning. (Pixabay License). “Virtual schooling wasn’t a success,” declared Alan Borsuk in a column for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about the impact of the pandemic on education. He was echoing...
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K-12 Education: MPS Using Remote and Virtual Education
E-learning. Pixabay License. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Milwaukee was doing remote education longer than any other Wisconsin district. Now most students in Milwaukee and across Wisconsin have...
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Jeff Spence Plans Run for Two City Positions
Jeff Spence. File photo by Molly Rippinger/NNS. Jeff Spence is taking a big bite out of the election apple, planning to run simultaneously for two open seats: the city-wide Milwaukee school board...
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K-12 Education: Schools Face Student Mental Health Issues
School classroom. (Pixabay License). Rates of depression and anxiety for students have increased due to learning loss from the pandemic, researchers have found, with a bigger impact on students of...
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Rethinking Schools Hires First Executive Director
Hair Representation in Children’s Books Workshop at the National Museum of African American History and Culture. Photo courtesy of Cierra Kaler-Jones. After 36 years as a Milwaukee based, non-profit...
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K-12 Education: Milwaukee Charter School Enrollment Declines
School classroom. Image by Wokandapix on Pixabay “I’m pleased to announce that we exceeded our projected enrollment for the 22-23 school year,” said Milwaukee school superintendent Keith Posley back in...
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K-12 Education: Teachers Pay May Rise By 8%
Riverwest Elementary School, 2765 N. Fratney St. Photo by Dave Reid. When Wisconsin school districts begin their new fiscal school year this fall, many will increate teachers’ base pay by 8%, the...
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K-12 Education: MPS Embroiled in a Real Food Fight
Milwaukee Public Schools Office of School Administration, 5225 W. Vliet St. Photo courtesy of Milwaukee Public Schools. Some Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) students contend that the district’s food is...
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K-12 Education: Open Enrollment Plummeting at MPS
Riverwest Elementary School, 2765 N. Fratney St. File photo by Dave Reid. Last year, 71,489 students transferred to other school districts using the state open enrollment system, according to a...
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K-12 Education: State Data on Student Transfers Missing
School classroom. Image by Wokandapix on Pixabay Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction (DPI) only knows what school students in the state are attending at two points in time: on the third Friday...
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Teachers Union Wins Big in Milwaukee School Board Races
Megan O’Halloran, Erika Siemsen, Marva Herndon and Missy Zombor. Photos from the candidates’ campaigns. Four of the five candidates endorsed by the Milwaukee teachers union won in Tuesday’s school...
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Will More Private Colleges In State Close?
Notre Dame Hall at Mount Mary University. File photo by Jeramey Jannene. The announcement on April 10 that Cardinal Stritch University was closing after 85 years in business was a shock to the...
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K-12 Education: MPS Budget Underfunds Teaching Positions
Riverwest Elementary School, 2765 N. Fratney St. Photo by Dave Reid. Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) will underfund its teacher positions by nearly $74 million next year according to an analysis by...
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K-12 Education: MPS Faces Future Financial Crisis
Riverwest Elementary School, 2765 N. Fratney St. File photo by Dave Reid. Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) faces a looming budget shortfall that could rise to more than $390 million by the 2027-28 school...
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K-12 Education: MPS Foundation a Vital Resource
Tiffany Tardy. Photo Credit: Alvin Connor. A PTA bake sale or selling candy bars door to door is unlikely to raise the kind of funds that large urban districts need to supplement tax dollars for field...
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K-12 Education: MPS Seeks To Revise School Calendar
Riverwest Elementary School, 2765 N. Fratney St. Photo by Dave Reid. If your family is planning a big vacation at the end of August next year, and you have children in an elementary Milwaukee school,...
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K-12 Education: MPS Struggles With Shrinking System
Bay View High School. File photo by Carl Baehr. Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) has been losing about 1,500 students a year for more than a decade, equal to the capacity of three schools per year. That...
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