Parents, students, community members, teachers and staff are staging "walk-ins" to support public schools this morning at nearly 20 Milwaukee Public Schools.
At 7:30, supporters of public education will gather to walk in to their schools to express their opposition to anti-public school measures that were inserted into the upcoming state budget.
Media has been invited to cover the walk-in at North Division High School, 1011 W. Center St., which will also include North Division Alumni Association members.
Here is a list of participating schools, though some others were still formalizing plans to take part when the list was compiled, so this list is potentially incomplete:
53rd Street School
Audubon Middle School
Congress
Kilbourn
Fernwood
Forest Home
Fratney
Grant
Hamilton
Humboldt Park
Lowell
Neeskara
New School for Community Service
North Division
Pierce
Project Stay
Riverside
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., where he lived until he was 17, Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point, Bay View, Enderis Park, South Milwaukee and on the East Side.
He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history, which was published in the U.S. in autumn 2010. Four more books, all about Milwaukee, have been published by The History Press.
With his most recent band, The Yell Leaders, Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan, South America and the U.S. The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour. Most recently, the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert.
He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry.
In 2005, he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area. He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club.
He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories, in that station's most popular podcast.
