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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 accustomed to from the past. We are not planning on requiring students or staff to wear masks when ...

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 fiscally sound way to continue to maintain our budget, nor is it a good long-range plan,” he told t...

MANITOWOC - Stacey Soeldner and Collin Braunel will join incumbents Kerry Trask and Lisa Johnston on the Manitowoc School Board after being voted in during Tuesday's 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 will not be finalized until after the canvassing boards confirm the counts later this week. A refer...

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 similar situation this school year with her son Jason, who was fined for racking up 28 absences that the ...

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 supposable scaredness.” Another comments, “I’ve heard rumors of teachers that don’t want to retu...