Milwaukee German Immersion School
The dashboard showed 51 classroom closures at 22 additional schools. MPS spokesperson Earl Arms said some schools may have multiple classroom closures from the same single case if, for example, a student or staff member tested positive after spending time in multiple classrooms.
Most of the positive tests are coming from students. At least 52 students and 17 staff members have tested positive since the youngest grade levels started the phased return to in-person learning April 14.
Under the phasing-in plan, students in grades 4-8 were invited to return April 19, and high school seniors, along with any high school students deemed in danger of failing, were invited back April 26. Other high school students must continue virtual learning for the rest of the school year.
Milwaukee Public Schools board members on Tuesday elected Bob Peterson as president and Sequanna Taylor as vice president of the board for the next year.
Peterson, who has been on the board since 2019, previously served as president of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, the union for MPS staff. He is also on the editorial board for Rethinking Schools, a magazine he helped found.
Peterson started working for MPS in 1977 as a paraprofessional. After earning his teaching degree, he taught for 30 years and co-founded La Escuela Fratney, according to the MPS website. He earned a master s degree in curriculum instruction with an emphasis on bilingual education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a doctorate with a dissertation on anti-racist teaching from Cardinal Stritch University.