There’s lots of controversy right now as Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is bullying through a bill to strip workers of their rights to bargain collectively. Once that happens, the best workers will leave and Wisconsin could see a generation of declining education. Anti-teacher bills like this do not have a temporary impact. The impact is [...]

Is that the smell of desperation in the air? A modest crowd of anti-reformers has gathered to oppose Mayor Tom Barrett‘s proposal for the city to take over MPS. The plan by Milwakee Mayor Tom Barrett is really quite simple — the Mayor would appoint a Superintendent who would run MPS, in many ways, like [...]

One thing that Milwaukee Alderman Tony Zielinski does very well is to cue in on issues that generate the interest of the media. Seeking out opportunities to be at odds with his colleagues or the Executive branch and be vocal about it seems to be something that Zielinski is working on mastering and any media [...]

Some kids just can’t be saved. There just isn’t a place in our schools for bullies, drug dealers or those that intimidate or assault teachers. While every kid should be given an opportunity to change, we need to ask ourselves, do we need to give them a place to hang out during the day and [...]

What happens when a school district, under the guise of fiscal conservatism, delays maintenance and expansion until it’s too late? The answer is that they find their failing infrastructure and lack of facilities an embarrassment and they finally look for ways to remediate the problem. This was the case in Brown Deer just a few [...]

Back in 1996 when I first ran for County Supervisor I was urged to seek the endorsement of then Alderman Tom Nardelli. At the time I knew nothing of him and he knew nothing of me except that I was running against a person he disliked. Nardelli gave me his endorsement in what I later [...]