There is no defending the Milwaukee Public Schools teacher who reportedly cut the braid off a 1st grader as a form of punishment.
What I find interesting is the outrage the incident apparently inspired in African Americans across the country.
I think I’d like to see some of that anger directed [...]
(H/T – Charlie Sykes, who called it his Wednesday Hot Read a day early)
Rep. Brett Davis (R-Oregon), ranking member on the Assembly Education Committee, sent the following letter to Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett regarding the proposal before the Legislature to have the mayor take over Milwaukee Public Schools [...]
Last week the Governor brought together concerned Legislators to discuss the struggling Milwaukee Public Schools. Invited to the meeting were officials with experience turning around failing school districts in Boston and Chicago. The discussion centered on proposals to significantly overhaul the Milwaukee Public Schools system.
Many of our schools are struggling [...]
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Email I sent to my State Rep Jon Richards and Senator Jeff Plale about the Governor's move to take the voter out of policy making at Milwaukee Public Schools.
I am not happy about the attempt to take power from the citizens of Milwaukee' [...]
As the debate rages over how to fix what's wrong with Milwaukee public schools, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel has found a new cause for alarm: Our schools leave our kids so ill-prepared that they can't even make the grade as cannon fodder any more.
It seems an unusually high percentage of [...]
Milwaukee Public Schools’ health officials want to make condoms freely available to students in many of the district’s high schools, as part of an effort to combat the health risks that sexually transmitted infections and other communicable diseases pose to young people.
If the proposal wins [...]
