Education

The Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association and others are calling on state legislators to fully fund public education and reduce disparities between poorer and wealthier districts.

Rufus King International High School’s Jew Crew and Friends of Islam invited students from three Milwaukee high schools to learn about forgiveness and reconciliation from Israeli and Palestinian parents who lost their children during the ongoing conflict.

Que and Khalif El-Amin grew up thinking that anything was possible for them. Now they bring that message to local kids.

The Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee and sponsors created a talent show to dissuade youths from violence in response to increased murder rates in Milwaukee.

Tina Owen-Moore founded the Alliance School of Milwaukee in 2005, the first in the nation to start with a mission of reducing bullying.

A Republican state representative and the executive director of the Milwaukee teachers’ union agree that school funding in the state is not working, but a solution may be hard to come by.

The Milwaukee Public Schools board is mulling over a proposal by Demond Means, commissioner of the Opportunity Schools Partnership Program, that would expand community schools. MPS would run the schools, which would employ union teachers.