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Superintendent Mark Holzman said the public needs to understand school board meetings are for the Board of Education, not the public.

According to a district report, 92 students were suspended out of school during the first quarter of the year.

Jan. 3-7 saw a record number of new cases, 75, reported in the district. 61 of those were students and 14 staff.

MANITOWOC, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Manitowoc Public School District is set to require face masking while inside. Superintendent Mark Holzman said he is ...

View Comments MANITOWOC - Manitowoc Public School District will offer an online learning option for students in kindergarten through 12th grade next fall through a new McKinley Academy online charter school. McKinley Academy, 1002 E. Cedar Ave., has served as an alternative high school in the district since 2007 and will be converted into a K-12 online charter school open to all resident students in the district and non-resident students who enroll through the state’s open enrollment progra...

MANITOWOC - No masks will be required in Manitowoc public schools or on school buses starting June 14. Superintendent Mark Holzman notified families of the change in the district’s COVID-19 mask protocol in a May 28 letter after the board of education voted to amend the policy May 11. "We are encouraged by the current health of our staff, students and community," Holzman said in his letter. "For the 2021-22 school year, we are planning on returning to the health-related protocols that we are ...

View Comments MANITOWOC - Despite passing a $4.3 million referendum this spring, the Manitowoc Public School District is still looking to pare down its spending. According to Superintendent Mark Holzman, the district wants to reduce the schools’ yearly budget by $1.3 million over the next three years. In October, the Manitowoc School Board passed an $81.2 million budget for the 2020-21 year. “We have been using fund balance for the past two years to balance our budget, and that is not a f...

MANITOWOC - Stacey Soeldner and Collin Braunel will join incumbents Kerry Trask and Lisa Johnston on the Manitowoc School Board after being voted in during Tuesdays election. The unofficial final tally showed Soeldner with 4,595 votes, Trask with 4,145 votes, Braunel with 3,412 votes and Johnston with 3,242 votes. Those who did not make it on the board were Aaron Erdman, Timothy Reis, Rhonda Neumann and Richard Nitsch, who had 3,063, 2,794, 2,523 and 2,507 votes, respectively.  The results ...

Last modified on Wed 17 Mar 2021 11.51 EDT It was the Monday morning before Thanksgiving when a police officer showed up on Tracie Higgins’s doorstep and handed a $439 fine to her teenage son for missing too many days of remote school during the pandemic. But the bulk of her son Mark’s repeated absences, the Wisconsin mother protested, were the result of faulty school technology, including a Chromebook that wouldn’t charge. Debra Pratt, also of Manitowoc, Wisconsin, faced a simil...

Dec 17, 2020 8:00 AMLocal News ***UPDATE 11:30 AM 12/17/2020*** We received the following screenshots from a parent, which were posted in a group on Facebook dedicated to parents of students in the MPSD. Our researcher is not a part of that group, therefore we were not able to see them. One comment reads as, “Definitely take photos!! We need to get Holzman and many of the school board members out!! They are doing nothing for our kids education. Only looking out for the teachers and their supp...