The Alliance School, a small, Milwaukee Public Schools instrumentality charter school serving 175 students in grades 6 through 12, will be featured on ABC’s “20/20” on Friday, September 30, 2011, at 9 p.m. Central Time. Alliance will be presented as a positive contrast to the Oxnard, Calif., middle school environment in which Lawrence King was [...]

MPS Foundation, Herb Kohl Foundation, Briggs & Stratton, Marcus Corporation help 14 students continue education Four organizations have announced the recipients of their scholarships for high school graduates in 2011. Following are the organizations and MPS student recipients: Milwaukee Public Schools Scholarship The Milwaukee Public Schools Scholarship program (MPS Scholarship) was established through generous funding [...]

Milwaukeeans will march Saturday, June 4, in recognition of the more than 80,000 Milwaukee Public School students who will lose math and reading programs, small-class sizes, nurses, arts programming, librarians and classroom teachers this September, when Gov. Scott Walker’s $1.6 billion cut to Wisconsin public schools takes effect. Activists, parents, teachers and students begin the [...]

HAATz Off to Pioneer Teachers of MPS Column: By Vicki Singh Collectively, the Historical African American Teachers (HAAT) has decided to continue to offer scholarships to working moms, art groups of color, future teachers in the sciences and students of theatre & the building trades. Two great scholarships are planned for foreign students, studying on [...]

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) has awarded $1 million to help raise student achievement in 15 Milwaukee Public Schools. All 15 were among the 2010- 11 Wisconsin Schools of Recognition — schools honored for solid student achievement while also having high poverty rates. The grant funds will be used in the following schools: [...]

Parent advocates in the Milwaukee Public Schools will meet March 30 to talk about what they can do collectively to help save local educational programs and opportunities for students in the city and its surrounding areas. Parents, students and other community members are all invited to attend and participate in the event, which includes translation [...]

The Milwaukee Courier joined with the Historical African American Teachers (HAAT) with celebrating pioneer teachers who taught in the Milwaukee Public School system. For the past few months, HAAT Honorees were featured leading up to the organization’s March 26th Luncheon that will recognized additional teachers, local reowned artistic directors, artists, and those who have contributed [...]

HAATz Off to Pioneer Teachers of MPS Column: It has been said that reading, writing and math are the keys to education. It has been said that with these keys, the individual will have what it takes to be successful in life. While there may be some truth to this, Constance Clark Reimer would beg [...]

Last week the Milwaukee Bucks held their ‘Books on Blast’ event for more than 800 Milwaukee Public School students. The event is for the annual Bucks & Sam’s Hope for Literacy Foundation Book Blast. The children, who were from Milwaukee French Immersion, Bruce Elementary, Fratney Elementary School, Hartford University School and Wisconsin Conservatory of Life [...]

HAATz Off to Pioneer Teachers of MPS Column: By Taki S. Raton In festive cultural circles he is known as referenced by the Philadelphia ’s ‘Keepers of the Culture’ organization in December of 2002 “an icon among storytellers everywhere.” And it was in 2002 when Milwaukee ’s own Tejumola F. Ologboni was the honored recipient [...]