Dear Governor Doyle: As President of the Milwaukee Board of School Directors, I am writing to express my disappointment with your cynical statement regarding Wisconsin’s Race to the Top (RTT) application. In your release, you predict that the application will fail because it does not include mayoral control of the Milwaukee Public Schools District (MPS). [...]

by Lynda Jones At the urging of Milwaukee legislators, most notably State Representative Annette Polly Williams who has been an advocate for Milwaukee Public Schools for a long time, senators came to Milwaukee and held a daylong state Senate hearing this week regarding the governance of MPS. After months of debates, demonstrations, divided political positions [...]