Kids & Family - Sept. 27, 2008
School lunches: Not as bad as I expected
Most days, I pack my sons' lunches because it's cheaper and healthier. I must admit, however, I finally started reading the MPS lunch menu, and it doesn't sound like the starchy-sugary nightmare I had assumed it to be.
Tags: MPS, school lunch, hot lunch

Kids & Family - June 3, 2008
Rapport Leadership training looks to Milwaukee's kids
Rapport, a company devoted to leadership development programs, hopes to help Milwaukee-area kids.
Tags: Rapport, leadership training, Deanne Werklund, Calgary, MPS, Joe Tate, St. Joan Antida, Pearls for Teen Girls, school choice

Politics - May 27, 2008
School choice program needs business advocates
If your only source of information on the issue of school choice was the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), you might think that school choice is an evil program that is destroying the fabric of our society.
Tags: school choice, weac, sheehy, WEAC, MPS, Milwaukee College Preparatory School, Richard Abdoo, Howard Fuller, John Norquist, James Keyes

Kids & Family - May 24, 2008
Students, artists collaborate on Meraviglioso mural
Artists Working in Education's collaboration with students in Victory School's Italian Immersion Program aims to build a bridge between the K5 students in the program with sixth- and seventh-grade students in Victory's Gifted and Talented Program.
Tags: Victory School, MPS, Meraviglioso mural, Italian Immersion Program, Kari Couture, AWE, Artists Working in Education, Italy, Rome, Venice, Trevi Fountain, St. Mark's Basilica, Laura Easley-Jones

Politics - April 25, 2008
Getting MPS off the bus
Busing issues in Milwaukee Public Schools always get the big headlines -- sometimes too big. Take, for instance, a recent banner announcing a new plan for MPS that would reduce "massive busing," a plan envisioned by new School Board member Michael Bonds.
Tags: Rezko, Doyle, MPS, busing, Bagojevich, Wisconsin Club for Growth, Scott Walker, Rick Graber, Lee Holloway, Theo Lipscomb, ethanol, I-94, Feingold