Corrinne Hess

The exercises were part of a third annual mental health symposium hosted by Marquette University’s BLEST Hub and MPS’ Department of Black and Latino Male Achievement.

The Wisconsin Legislature is suing Gov. Tony Evers and the Department of Public Instruction over literacy legislation passed last summer. 

Less than a week after voters narrowly approved a $252 million referendum for Milwaukee Public Schools, the district decided to eliminate trauma support specialists from half of the schools in the 53206 ZIP code.

This summer, UW-Whitewater wheelchair basketball coach Jake Williams and players Talen Jourdan, a senior at the school, and sophomore AJ Fitzpatrick will compete in the Paralympic Games in Paris. 

School board members in a Sheboygan County district listed “Christian values” and “conservative politics” as desired characteristics in a posting for a superintendent position at a public school. 

A new report by the Department of Public Instruction found about four out of every 10 first-year teachers either leave Wisconsin or the profession after just six years. 

Wisconsin voters were asked to approve more than 100 school district referendums in February and April. But with an approval rate of only 60 percent, voter fatigue appears to have set in.

Four members of the Whitnall School Board are being investigated for allegedly violating Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Law. 

With a margin of just 1,720 votes, Milwaukee Public Schools’ $252 million referendum was narrowly approved on Tuesday. 

The university anticipates the terminations will begin on May 31, according to a letter sent to Mequon Mayor Andrew Nerbun and Ozaukee County Board Chairman Lee Schlenvogt.