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Bay View High School student Soleil Harvey speaks at a rally on the MPS budget held by Leaders Igniting Transformation, a student advocacy group. LIT supported the creation of a department to uplift Black and Latino girls, modeled after an existing department focused on boys.
As part of its budget for next year, the Milwaukee Public Schools Board voted to create a new department focused on Black and Latino girls, gender nonconforming students and LGBTQ+ students.
It’s modeled on MPS’s Department of Black and Latino Male Achievement, which has been around since 2017 and provides mentoring and classes for male students of color.
Julie Underwood and have been active advocates against school privatization and the increasing flow of taxpayer money from public schools into private school vouchers.
The transition in leadership at the Department of Public Instruction on July 5 will mark the first transition at the department in more than 20 years (Gov.
Tony Evers previously led the department, and the current superintendent,
“I’m a public school advocate, I’m an educator and I’m a mom,” Underly told a gathering of public school advocates on Monday. “So I plan to take a different approach.”
That approach will be characterized by “more offense, less defense,” Underly said, and improvements in communication between the state’s education department and the public, including an upgrade to the department’s Byzantine website.
State superintendent race and school policies should not be so politicized. //end headline wrapper ?>Deborah Kerr and Jill Underly.
There’s an old adage that says, “all politics are local” this is true, especially during spring election season in Wisconsin. While gubernatorial, state legislative, and federal races are always fall elections (with the exception of the occasional special election), most elected officials focus on doing the work associated with their respective offices and campaign managers rest or transition to other work. Spring elections–especially when there is no statewide judicial candidate occur with little fanfare, political party support, or high dollar donations as the races are for municipal and circuit court judges and local school/village offices.
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