Education & Workforce Development

The Wisconsin State Assembly passed legislation Thursday night authorizing the sale of certain underused public school buildings in the Milwaukee Public Schools District.

The Wisconsin State Assembly last night passed a bill preempting local “living wage” ordinances.

“We need to love our kids more than the institutions in which they are educated.”
- Former MPS Superintendent Howard Fuller

Marquette University will eliminate 105 staff positions in an effort to cut costs and “ensure the university's long-term fiscal health, according to a letter today from Robert Wild, S.J., interim president.

Marquette University was one of 16 organizations chosen by NASA to launch a small satellite into space in the next three years.

Baltimore City Public Schools announced today Dr. Gregory Thornton, superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools, will become its new chief executive officer of the district, pending successful contract negotiations.

Following the general wisdom that says, “Leave well enough alone,” let’s not mess with the basic structure that supports the Wisconsin Technical College System (WCTS).

S.C. Johnson has announced it is closing the Minneapolis home office of The Caldrea Company, which it acquired in 2008.

True Skool Inc., a nonprofit youth arts organization, plans to offer its after-school Urban Arts Program in a 9,800-square-foot space at the Shops of Grand Avenue in the Plankinton Building at 161 W. Wisconsin Ave. in downtown Milwaukee, according to a proposal submitted to the city’s Board of Zoning Appeals (BOZA).

Daniel Eck, Lakeland College’s interim president for the past 10 months, has been selected as the Sheboygan college’s 16th president.