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Budget surplus should help re-fund public schools

Published Jan. 14, 2013

Tomorrow night at 7 p.m. Gov. Scott Walker will give his state of the state address speech for 2013. Certainly, he and I won't agree when it comes to public schools.

School's dads group lifts off with soaring paper airplanes event

Published Dec. 7, 2012

A loop of video showing the Blue Angels soaring through the heavens was projected on a screen above the stage in the gymnateriatorium at Maryland Avenue Montessori. Despite their speed and acrobatics, they couldn't hold a flame - blue or otherwise - to the aircraft soaring around the school's combined gym, cafeteria and auditorium after school on Thursday.

Johnston uses hard work and smart work to launch CrossFit MPS

Published Nov. 17, 2012

Milwaukee Public Schools high school social studies teacher Chip Johnston used CrossFit to get back in shape after graduate school. Now, he's built the district's first CrossFit affiliate program on the lower level of MacDowell Montessori. The core strength and conditioning program is open to MPS students and staff.

Author steps back in time to study Milwaukee schoolhouse history

Published Oct. 28, 2012

OnMilwaukee.com Managing Editor Bobby Tanzilo is already a published author beyond the pages of the magazine you're reading right now. It's his fourth book, however, that spawned from an interest in where his own kids go to school, not to mention his long-time interest in "going behind the scenes." "Historic Milwaukee Public Schoolhouses" hit bookshelves this fall and chronicles the amazing architecture of the landmarks we send our children to every day.

Packers' Jennings and Omanhene establish scholarship program

Published Oct. 8, 2012

Green Bay Packers wide receiver Greg Jennings is teaming up with Milwaukee's Omanhene Cocoa Bean Company to provide study abroad scholarships to underprivileged youth.

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Alderman Bob Donovan Calls Mayor To Task

Opportunities Lost in Milwaukee Statement of Alderman Bob Donovan December 16, 2009 During its special session today in Madison, the Wisconsin Legislature chose to delay action on historic legislation that would give Milwaukee’s mayor the power to appoint the superintendent ...

Back to School

As I start my first beginning of the school year, I wonder why the uproar about the mayor taking over? I am fully aware of the impending accountability of teaching 4th grade and the high pressure testing that my students will encounter. Yet, I am short on textbooks, I have outdated and incomplete...

Texting: Blessing or curse

This column appears in the March 11 edition of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.Sports fans do it from their seats. Millions do it to help choose the next "American Idol." President Barack Obama even used it to give supporters the scoop on his choice for a running mate. ...

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