{"id":10975,"date":"2024-06-03T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T15:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10975"},"modified":"2024-06-03T16:08:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T16:08:57","slug":"advocates-demand-accountability-at-milwaukee-public-schools-ahead-of-possible-superintendent-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10975","title":{"rendered":"Advocates Demand Accountability at Milwaukee Public Schools Ahead of Possible Superintendent Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/advocates-demand-accountability-at-milwaukee-public-schools-ahead-of-possible-superintendent-discipline\/<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Milwaukee<\/p>\n

(The Center Square) \u2013 Milwaukee\u2019s superintendent could soon be out of a job.<\/p>\n

The city\u2019s school board is set to meet late Monday afternoon to talk about Superintendent Keith Posley\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

The meeting comes after blowback from Milwaukee parents over proposed budget cuts, a threat from the state to withhold millions of dollars in school aid and a demand from activists in the city for \u201caccountability.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are serious violations that directly call into question MPS\u2019 financial stewardship of taxpayer dollars. We are dismayed, though not surprised, that our concerns have been proven well-founded \u2013 and we repeat our calls that Milwaukee cannot afford for business as usual to continue at MPS,\u201d City Forward Collective Executive Director Colleston Morgan Jr. said Friday.<\/p>\n

Posley has not answered questions about how MPS missed last year\u2019s deadline for a pair of state-required financial reports.<\/p>\n

Wisconsin\u2019s Department of Public Instruction last week threatened to withhold $15 million in general state, and special education dollars from Milwaukee Public Schools.<\/p>\n

\u201cFamilies are now at risk of having to pay even more in additional taxes than MPS officials indicated during the referendum campaign. This is the direct result of MPS\u2019 own mistakes and mismanagement of public funds \u2013 nothing short of a violation of the public trust,\u201d Morgan added.<\/p>\n

Voters in Milwaukee approved a $252 million tax increase for MPS back in April.<\/p>\n

The sales pitch for that referendum was to avoid deep cuts to Milwaukee schools. But Posley\u2019s latest budget, which was supposed to be finalized last week, includes nearly 300 jobs cuts. About half of those are teaching jobs.<\/p>\n

Morgan also took issue with what he sees as a double standard when it comes to the mistakes of MPS.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf issues of this magnitude had occurred at a public charter school or a private school participating in the Milwaukee Parental Choice Program, the school in question would be subject to severe sanctions \u2013 up to and including closure or loss of eligibility for public funding. Milwaukee Public Schools should be held to at least the same high standards for financial accountability as our city\u2019s charter and private schools,\u201d Morgan added. \u201cMPS should face the same rigorous scrutiny and oversight as any other school operator would for these persistent and systemic failures.\u201d<\/p>\n

MPS\u2019 board says Monday\u2019s meeting will include a closed-door session on Posleys future and possible discipline, as well as a public hearing on those missing financial reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/advocates-demand-accountability-at-milwaukee-public-schools-ahead-of-possible-superintendent-discipline\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Milwaukee\u2019s superintendent could soon be…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":3016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10977,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10975\/revisions\/10977"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}