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• MPS receives $200K to expand dental services

  —News and Opinion

  Milwaukee Public Schools will receive $200,000 to improve access to dental care for students thanks to a new federal spending bill that's about to be approved in Washington, D.C. According to a news release the district sent out today, the funding will be used for the Smart Smiles program, which uses [...]

  Posted: December 22, 2009, 6:08pm EST
  

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• What’s the real outrage?

  —From Where I Sit

  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 [...]

  Posted: December 21, 2009, 1:40pm EST
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• Love the teacher, target the union

  —Patrick McIlheran: Right On

  After I wrote yesterday about why it’s a bad idea to turn over the Milwaukee Public Schools to unchecked mayoral authority, I heard from readers who said -- because I mentioned the teachers union in passing -- that I don’t like teachers. It’s a hard job, several wrote. Teachers do noble [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• Love the teacher, target the union

  —News and Opinion

  After I wrote yesterday about why it’s a bad idea to turn over the Milwaukee Public Schools to unchecked mayoral authority, I heard from readers who said -- because I mentioned the teachers union in passing -- that I don’t like teachers. It’s a hard job, several wrote. Teachers do noble [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 9:00pm EST
  

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• MPS Condom Distribution Program Is Common Sense

  —The Political Environment

  Milwaukee Public Schools, with the unanimous vote of an elected board, is doing the right thing by creating a program of limited condom distribution, under controlled circumstances. It will help combat teen pregnancy and prevent STD transmission.
  
  Talk radio has been blasting the idea for days, and callers were [...]

  Posted: December 18, 2009, 5:53am EST
  

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• Local students win state mini-grants

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  Students at 21 Milwaukee Public Schools' sites and 11 suburban schools have been awarded mini grants of $1,000 or less to enact programs aimed at preventing risky behavior among their peers, the state Department of Public Instruction announced Thursday. Local districts with schools receiving the grants included Greendale, Menomonee Falls, Oak' [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 2:57pm EST
  

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• Wisconsin Legislature Declines to Give Milwaukee Mayor Control of Schools

  —Boots and Sabers

  Good.

  Lawmakers refused to act on a bill Wednesday that would give the mayor of Milwaukee substantial control over the operations of the ailing Milwaukee Public Schools system.

  Legislators in both houses, controlled by Democrats, declined to take up the legislation.

  [...]

  Posted: December 17, 2009, 5:05am EST
  by Owen

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• Mayoral control opponents, supporters lobby in Madison today

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  Representatives from several Milwaukee-area groups gathered in Madison today to oppose legislation that would allow the city's mayor to choose the superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, said Bob Peterson of the Coalition to Stop the MPS Takeover. Meanwhile, another group of organizations and individuals called Education Reform Now Advocacy headed to [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 3:19pm EST
  

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• Questions for Tom Barrett

  —No Runny Eggs

  (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 [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 7:18am EST
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• Comment on Tom Barrett's Mayoral Takeover of MPS Plan

  —Forward our Motto

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  I don't like the Mayoral takeover of Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) plan that Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett is pushing. The main problem with the plan? It's a plan for a Mayoral takeover that claims educational improvement as a side-effect, when the plan should be a plan to improve education' [...]

  Posted: December 15, 2009, 5:05am EST
  by Forward Our Motto

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• Setting Standards, Achieving Excellence

  —Uppity Wisconsin

  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 [...]

  Posted: December 14, 2009, 3:36pm EST
  by Sen. Kathleen Vinehout

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• You didn't ask me, but I want to keep my vote

  —Uppity Wisconsin

  

  An MPS School

  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' [...]

  Posted: December 13, 2009, 10:55pm EST
  by SocratesChildren

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• Two Milwaukee high schools on U.S. News' best list

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  Milwaukee Public Schools had two schools and the Racine Unified School District had one school that made U.S. News and World Report's latest Best High Schools list. Milwaukee School of Languages and Rufus King High School were awarded silver medals in the news magazine's annual ranking. Along with Racine's Walden III [...]

  Posted: December 11, 2009, 11:49am EST
  

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• On handing out condoms

  —Across the Board

  So Milwaukee Public Schools is now going to give out male condoms to students. I guess it's a day whose time has come. Two things I found interesting about the article. First, the use of the word "male" struck me as odd. Are you telling me that women will not [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  

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• On handing out condoms

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  So Milwaukee Public Schools is now going to give out male condoms to students. I guess it's a day whose time has come. Two things I found interesting about the article. First, the use of the word "male" struck me as odd. Are you telling me that women will not [...]

  Posted: December 10, 2009, 12:40pm EST
  

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• Special session?

  —FightingBob.com

  Jim Doyle has been hollering wolf for months. He shouts that unless the Legislature passes his ill-defined plan to rescue Milwaukee Public Schools Wisconsin might not get any of the cash President Obama has set aside for this unproven experiment he calls "Race to the Top." Doyle whines "don't blame'" [...]

  Fetched: December 09, 2009, 9:47am EST
  by Ed Garvey

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• Paper bemoans lack of qualified cannon fodder

  —Uppity Wisconsin

  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 [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 6:10pm EST
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• The School Board needs to hit the brakes

  —News and Opinion

  The Milwaukee School Board has narrowed its list of candidates for Milwaukee Public Schools’ next superintendent to six semifinalists, but Mayor Tom Barrett has had no input in the process. With interviews set up for this week to narrow the field down even more and the public having no indication yet [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 3:10pm EST
  

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• MPS Board chooses semi-finalists for superintendent position

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  The Milwaukee Board of School Directors has narrowed its list of candidates for Milwaukee Public Schools' next superintendent to six semi-finalists, Board President Michael Bonds said today. The semi-finalists, whose names have not been released, will engage in face-to-face interviews with School Board members this week, Bonds said. By the end of' [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 2:09pm EST
  

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• MPS to look at closing five more schools

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  A Milwaukee Board of School Directors committee tomorrow will consider a proposal from the administration to close five more schools. The schools proposed for closure or contract termination include two traditional Milwaukee Public Schools - Robert M. LaFollette K-8 School and Dr. Arthur Fletcher Elementary School - as well as three [...]

  Posted: December 07, 2009, 11:56am EST
  

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• MPS considers condom giveaway program for kids

  —WISSUP = WISCONSIN SPEAKS UP

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  A little more than a hot lunch program.  MPS pondering distributing sexual pharmaceutical products to minors.
  
  
  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' [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:08pm EST
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• National abstinence group objects to MPS condom proposal

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  Today's story about a Milwaukee Public Schools proposal to make condoms available in many of the district's high schools has generated a lot of chatter. One national group I contacted yesterday sent comments that came too late for inclusion in the story. Here's what Valerie Huber, executive director of the National [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 3:00pm EST
  

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• MPS – More of the same will not fix the problem

  —Wisconsin Family Voice

  Memo to Milwaukee Public Schools:  Thanks for making our case–comprehensive sex education programs don’t work.   Rising STIs, alarmingly high rates of sexual activity among middle and high school students, and increasing teen pregnancies–that’s what you get with comprehensive sex ed programs. MPS has a comprehensive sex ed program.  It is not abstinence-centered; [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 2:36pm EST
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• Rubber souls

  —Patrick McIlheran: Right On

  The Milwaukee Public Schools’ leaders, the paper reports, will talk about whether high schools should pass out condoms. Since, as one MPS health curriculum specialist told the paper, “We want our students to be abstinent,” but, hey, the district’s grown-ups know they’ll rut like deer no matter what you tell them, [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

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• Rubber souls

  —News and Opinion

  The Milwaukee Public Schools’ leaders, the paper reports, will talk about whether high schools should pass out condoms. Since, as one MPS health curriculum specialist told the paper, “We want our students to be abstinent,” but, hey, the district’s grown-ups know they’ll rut like deer no matter what you tell them, [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 1:30pm EST
  

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• Kids these days, Oy

  —illusory tenant

  More than 60% of high school students in Milwaukee Public Schools are sexually active, according to the district's 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
  Either high school has changed dramatically or else I was even more oblivious then than I thought. And I went to a Roman Catholic high school, [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 10:06am EST
  

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• Free Rubbers! Just Go to School!

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  Ever in pursuit of new ways to "help" students, MPS is considering a rubber-handout program for the darlings.  This on top of the MPS' extant 'sex ed' programs.
  
  Milwaukee Public Schools' health officials want to make condoms freely available to students in many of the district's high schools, [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 8:37am EST
  

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• MPS To Discuss Providing Free Condoms to Kids

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  Good idea?

  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 [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:28am EST
  by Owen

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• Milwaukee Democrats Not Serious About Fixing MPS

  —Boots and Sabers

  Nuts.

  A proposal to overhaul the Milwaukee Public Schools also would mandate 33% student discounts on Milwaukee County Transit System bus passes - but only if the state authorizes a new 0.5% sales tax to fund the bus system.

  The bill by state Rep. Tamara Grigsby and state Sen. [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 6:15am EST
  by Owen

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• Firstwatch: NASA, a b-balll challenge, charity and cookies

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  Monday was Dick Clark's birthday, but it's Milwaukee Public Schools students who will be reaching for the stars. Amber Gell, an engineer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, will visit six Milwaukee Public Schools today and Thursday. Gell will urge students who want to help send the nation's astronauts and [...]

  Posted: December 02, 2009, 5:45am EST
  

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