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Council will recognize State Championship Basketball teams
Divine Savior Holy Angels High School Girls Basketball Team, Pius XI High School Girls Basketball Team, and Young Coggs Preparatory Academy Boys Basketball Team were honored during a special presentation at the Tuesday, March 31, 2015 regular meeting of the Common Council. These three state championship basketball teams will be recognized for their teamwork and victories during the 2015 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) state basketball tournament. The Young Coggs Eagles basketball team won their first WIAA Division 5 State Basketball Championship; Divine Savior Holy Angels High School won the 2015 WIAA Division I State Girls Basketball Championship, and the Lady Popes of Pius XI High School won the 2015 WIAA Division 2 State Girls Basketball Championship.
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Candidates for School Board of Governance meet the voters in public forum at St. Matthew CME Church The entire Board of Governance members of the Milwaukee School Board were present for a forum held at St. Matthew CME Church, 2944 N. 9th Street, on Tuesday evening, March 31, 2015. Roughly 50 people attended, including one Wisconsin Assemblyman, Rep. Mandela Barnes. The candidates addressed a myriad of concerns and placed emphasis on what each would do if elected next Tuesday, April 7th. Pictured (from left) are: School Board President Michael Bonds, candidate Stephanie Pruitt, candidate Carol Voss (who is running unopposed), and Terrence Falk. Moderator of the forum was Eric Von. Staff Photo
Prepare for gutting of Milwaukee Education By Steve Waring adjusted for inflation. Special to the Milwaukee Times Those spending priorities are not in the best The Milwaukee Citizens interest of the people Coalition has some bad news of Wisconsin, according to deliver to supporters of to Dee Pettack, a panelK-12 public education in ist and legislative liaison Wisconsin: Deep painful with the Wisconsin Decuts are coming to public partment of Public Ineducation next year. struction who said that The Milwaukee Public the clearest indicator by School system is likely to have far of academic achieve$12.1 million less with which ment was poverty. Stuto educate students based on dents from the lowest estimated cuts to school dis- income households pertricts in Milwaukee County, formed on the average based on figures prepared worse across every racial by the Wisconsin Education demographic. Without a Association Council. Total good education, children cuts to Milwaukee County born into poverty are far are estimated to amount to more likely to remain im$19.3 million. poverished. The cuts will reduce per The figures were made pupil spending in Wisconsin available at a panel discusto approximately the same sion held March 31 at the level in 2015 that it was in Franklin Public Library. The 2009 and that figure is not event, which featured a five-
Coalition. “There was no debate about education during [the gubernatorial] campaign. Education never came up,” said Ted Kraig, a panelist and member of the Wisconsin Education Association Council. “Now we have this phenomenally radical plan to dismantle public education.” Mr. Kraig said the irony Staff Photo of the situation was that 59 percent of Wisconsin Dee Pettack residents were in favor Legislative Liaison of increasing funding for Wisconsin Department of K-12 public education. Public Instruction Supporters outnumber opponents by nearly 2-1 in favoring school reform person panel discussion as that provides educators with well as time for questions the resources they need to be from the audience of about effective. 50. The event was sponsored Unfortunately those voices by the Milwaukee Citizens are not the ones being heard
by the Governor and State Assembly in Madison, according to Ms. Pettack. She estimated that the legislature spends 90 percent of its time in Madison catering to the needs of the 12 percent of students in Wisconsin who attend private schools. She also noted that in the average charter school, 70 percent of the students are receiving voucher payments from the state. “At what point are you a private school, when you receive more than 70 percent of your funding from the public,” she asked rhetorically. In addition to reducing funding, the proposed budget caps the amount of revenue a district can raise and spend on education. Any in (Continued on pg. 2)