This week at the 4th Street Forum: This week, the 4th Street Forum focuses on the challenges many students face in our school system. Children cannot check their home lives at the door when they come to school, and oftentimes have difficulties finding the support they need in the classroom. These distractions, from a young age [...]
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This week at the 4th Street Forum: This week, 4th Street continues their commitment to the ongoing conversation about education in Milwaukee, taking on the challenges of urban education faced by MPS. Everybody agrees that the system needs to improve, but exactly what the system needs is a widely debated issue. The possibilities are dizzying. Do [...]
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This week at the 4th Street Forum: A special Tuesday edition of the Forum addresses a society’s responsibility to teach parents how to raise their children. To start the piece, a few forum-goers discuss the importance of parents followed by suggestions on how society should help from MPS Parent and Volunteer Amalia Schoone, Council for the [...]
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This week at the 4th Street Forum: Some of Milwaukee’s loudest voices in education discuss how to get MPS back on track with special attention given to finances. This piece starts with students airing out a few grievances followed by some ideas from Mayor Tom Barrett, Barbara Horton,Executive Director of the Darrell Hines Academy, and William [...]
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This week at the 4th Street Forum: The discussion was jam-packed with ideas. In this piece, we hear some audience members briefly share their opinions, followed by some potential solutions from Michael D’Amato (former alderman, currently Wisconsin Director of SEED Foundation), Jeanette Mitchell (Executive Director of the Leadership Center at Cardinal Stritch), and Rita Tenorio (Principal [...]
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