Public To Weigh In On Ugly MPS Budget This Week

By Ola Lisowski - May 15, 2018

Act 10, Darienne Driver, Education, K-12, Milwaukee Budget, Milwaukee Public Schools, MPS Budget, Spending

By Ola Lisowski – With school board meetings slated for Tuesday and Thursday evening, Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) will move closer to finalizing its $1.17 billion 2018-19 budget this week. Read More Public To Weigh In On Ugly MPS Budget This Week

Kittle on Vicki McKenna: The MPS La La Land and Senator Lena Taylor

By Chris Rochester - May 8, 2018

Amy Mizialko, Darienne Driver, Lena Taylor, Matt Kittle, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, MPS, MTEA

Matt Kittle discusses the unfolding situation with Sen. Lena Taylor and the failure of Milwaukee Public Schools and its union to get a handle on a looming budget deficit. Read More Kittle on Vicki McKenna: The MPS La La Land and Senator Lena Taylor

News And Views: Fantasy Land at Milwaukee Public Schools

By Chris Rochester - May 8, 2018

Amy Mizialko, Darienne Driver, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, MPS, MTEA

MacIver Communications Director Chris Rochester joins Oliver Burrows on WXCO in Wausau to discuss the fantasy land that bureaucrats at MPS and its union are living in. While the district is staring down a $40 million budget shortfall, the union is proposing doubling the district’s budget and the school board is rejecting common-sense ways to save money proposed by outgoing Superintendent Darienne Driver. Read More News And Views: Fantasy Land at Milwaukee Public Schools

MPS Fantasy Land Deals With Fiscal Reality While Union Demands More

By Matt Kittle - May 8, 2018

Amy Mizialko, Darienne Driver, Milwaukee Public Schools, Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association, MPS, MTEA

By M.D. Kittle – Days after audaciously asserting Milwaukee Public Schools “needs” to double its $1 billion budget, the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association is flirting with the ’S word,’ if the district doesn’t back off on budget cut talk. Read More MPS Fantasy Land Deals With Fiscal Reality While Union Demands More

A Difference of Opinion: Is MPS Failing Its Students?

By Brett Healy - October 19, 2016

Darienne Driver, Education Reform, MPS, Ola Lisowski, OSPP

Are Milwaukee Public Schools on the rebound after the state Department of Public Instruction took the district out of the “failing” category? Or did DPI simply move the goalposts? Read two competing op-eds. Read More A Difference of Opinion: Is MPS Failing Its Students?