Education

• Wisconsin audits find lack of tracking of DEI spending at university system and state agencies
• Lead, safety, academics and a financial crisis: Cassellius discusses challenges after first month as MPS superintendent
• Student outcry over MPS school using 'inappropriate item' to describe loaded gun found in classroom
• UW-Madison: Visas of several international students, alumni terminated by US government
• Federal threats to education funding could impact Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• 'We're getting very close': Moms in booster club fundraising to save Hartland school's band program
• Making motors: Science fair at Racine elementary school comes with a big prize
• Medical College of Wisconsin students learn their placements on National Residency Match Day
• Celebratory send-off held as Washington Park HS boys basketball team heads to state
• Judge: City avoids fines with police officers now working in 11 MPS schools
• Local high school students participate in engineering contest at Discovery World
• Students return to Trowbridge Elementary after its weeklong closure due to lead concerns
• Waukesha County students take part in interactive health care career expo
• Lead screening clinics to be held for MPS students at schools of concern
• State lawmakers debate bill that would require MPS to cover 75% of SRO costs
• Read Across America Week: CBS 58's Montse Ricossa reads with kids at Penfield Children's Center
• 'I don't feel safe at that school:' Former school security coordinator charged with recording students in locker room
• MSOE announces new campaign to add AI into educational programs
• Trowbridge students start at new school after testing positive for dangerous levels of lead
• Oconomowoc 4th graders raise money to support victims of California wildfires
• Milwaukee taking steps to get SROs in schools following $1K-per-day fine
• MPD schedules state-mandated SRO training after judge threatens $1K-per-day fines
• No SROs in MPS schools by Thursday's court-ordered deadline: City of Milwaukee to ask for delay
• State and local officials hold school safety meeting
• MPS filing details district's SRO progress ahead of deadline, no details from MPD or city yet
• Missionary teaches Milwaukee students about time spent volunteering in Uganda
• MPD officers have not undergone required SRO training ahead of Thursday deadline
• MPS board approves funding plan to bring officers into schools
• Kenosha Unified School District budget referendum rejected
• Judge: MPS, city must get SROs in schools within 10 days and split the cost evenly
• In first news conference, new MPS superintendent pledges more outreach, transparency
• Voters to decide the fate of the Kenosha Unified School District
• 'Afraid even to tell the truth': Lawyer for MPS whistleblowers, lawmakers react to scathing MPS audit
• Milwaukee Health Dept needs help testing MPS schools for lead after hazardous levels found at Kagel Elementary
• MPS board votes to name Brenda Cassellius district's next superintendent
• Golda Meir at risk of closing down if MPS fails to address lead hazards
• 'It's sounding an alarm:' Milwaukee petition demands transparency from MPS, MHD after students test positive for lead
• Gov. Evers visits Head Start child care provider in Racine
• What does Milwaukee want in the next MPS superintendent? We asked.
• MPS superintendent finalists make pitch in open forum
• MPS comptroller out after 2 weeks on the job
• Educators brace for uncertain future as Trump administration readies plans to dismantle Department of Education
• MPS teacher says she was suspended without pay after sharing information for immigrant families
• Milwaukee program secures $7.4M grant to double support for low-income college students
• Hamilton School District implementing new bus routes following tragic accident
• SCOWIS to hear Evers-GOP lawsuit over new reading law; $50 million for schools still held up
• Milwaukee judge orders MPS Board of Directors to comply with state law, install 25 school resource officers by Feb. 17
• Meet the candidates for state superintendent: Jeff Wright
• State education agency issues freezes on hiring, travel
• Meet the candidates for state superintendent: Brittany Kinser
• MPS to join lawsuit against social media giants
• Racine debates renaming of Red Apple School, in honor of astronaut Laurel Clark
• MPS delay on hiring officers could cost them state funding, GOP leader says
• MPS board announces decision to re-open application window for superintendent
• Parents angry after some MPS students sent erroneous high school acceptance letters
• MPS community engagement meeting held to address school safety issues
• Students get an early lesson in computer coding on Milwaukee's south side
• Opponents of Menomonee Falls book ban call on state to overrule decision
• Gun found on Indian Trail student in Kenosha, weapon not located during initial search
• Catholic Memorial High School students participate in 11th Annual Crusader Day of Service
• Kenosha schools will ask taxpayers for a $115M referendum on February ballot
• With 26 applicants for MPS superintendent, consultants list ideal qualities based on community feedback
• New state report cards released; scoring change complicates yearly comparisons
• Watertown Unified School District approves controversial guidelines for transgender students
• 36 MATC students celebrate American citizenship at naturalization ceremony
• New MPS board member James Ferguson sworn in
• Pius HS to resume in-person learning on Tuesday with new security and safety procedures
• As state Senate race tests new maps, key suburban contest centers on abortion
• MPS board discusses why 13 schools are being considered for closures or mergers. One part of the city would be affected most
• Wauwatosa East High School students make Halloween costumes for babies in the NICU
• 'It's a basic need': Wisconsin state superintendent proposes free meals in schools for 2025-2027 budget
• MPS releases list of schools considered for closures, mergers
• Speakers pressure MPS board to reject any plan to bring police back into schools
• Decorated Sheboygan County high school volleyball coach suspended
• City leaders react to MPS Athletics paperwork fumble
• St. Augustine Prep breaks down on Aug Prep North
• Racine students take pledge against gun violence
• 'Dropped the ball': 4 Milwaukee alders tee off on MPS athletics commissioner for clerical error that forfeited 2 football seasons
• Informational session in Wauwatosa highlights school referenda on November ballot
• Parents, faculty pack Nicolet Union High School for grand reopening
• Milwaukee Public Schools will lose more than $49M in state aid due to financial reporting error
• Silver Lake-Salem School Board fires staff member charged with sexual assaulting students
• MPS error causes WIAA to forfeit Bay View and Pulaski HS football seasons, issue 2-year playoff bans
• MPS missed updated deadlines for financial reporting. State officials say it's not a problem
• Tension at first MPS facilities town hall as community fears school closures
• With school closings looming, MPS releases facilities data but not list of schools on chopping block
• University of Wisconsin fires former porn-making chancellor who wanted to stay on as a professor
• MPS sets timeline for superintendent search, talks about police in schools kept private
• Milwaukee Mayor Johnson reads to kids as part of National Literacy Month
• Kettle Moraine High School floods, expensive repairs ahead
• 'You can't have it both ways': Wauwatosa School Board discusses $124 million referendums
• Former MPS board member Aisha Carr accused of food stamp, public assistance fraud
• Sen. Chris Larson holds conference on Wisconsin's special education funding gap
• 'Everybody should have access:' Grassroots Menomonee Falls org. hands out book for free during Banned Books Week
• Should ex UW-La Crosse Chancellor, Joe Gow be allowed to teach after porn controversy?
• DOJ: ‘Threat wave’ happening to schools in Wisconsin
• Evers defends $800M UW funding proposal, reacts to branch campus enrollment data delay
• 65 students presented with scholarships to MATC
• MPS proposes, then backs off raising top administrator salaries to $200,000
• Money meant to improve reading in schools is frozen amid a political fight. Now, districts have to take out loans.