Milwaukee school board approves plan to reopen schools
Milwaukee Public School Board unanimously approved a plan to begin the phased reopening of schools at their board meeting last Tuesday. The plan allows for 300 special needs students and their teachers to voluntarily return to in-person instruction on February 8. Further, it sets tentative return dates in mid-April for roughly 4,300 teachers and 75,000 students.
Under the proposal, 23,000 Pre-Kindergarten through 2nd grade students will return on April 12, 32,000 3rd through 8th graders on April 19, and finally 19,000 high school students will return on April 26. A similar tiered reopening schedule was utilized in Chicago and other districts to divide educators and attempt to stifle opposition. In Chicago, Pre-Kindergarten and Special Education teachers were ordered back into the classroom on January 4th while the rest of the district is remote.
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Abbie Fishman, is running for the 5th district school board seat representing Milwaukee’s Harambee, Riverwest, East Side and Downtown neighborhoods, where her family has lived for decades.
Abbie’s experiences as both an MPS Teacher and parent of an MPS graduate inspired her candidacy. She has additionally held a variety of positions across MPS and benefited from her work with passionate teachers, and all varieties of devoted students in MPS. She was frequently frustrated by the multitude of obstacles that have discouraged teachers and students. Her mission is to facilitate and effect systemic change by replacing the stop gap measures MPS has historically implemented to address the needs of our diverse students of color, cultures, languages and abilities. Ms. Fishman has many ideas for initiating the change MPS needs.