Senior Advisor. Corp bd member. Informed citizens are the foundation of democracy. Tweets are my own.

Milwaukee, WI
Joined March 2012
This is the equivalent of the Irish good bye to X. No offense, just better uses of my time.
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It’s high time to end the divisive, “two systems” rhetoric. We have one set of students, who are facing shared challenges (many lifted up in @DrJillUnderly’s address). They are ALL worthy of our love, our support, and of fair funding - no matter their choice of schools.
"At the state level, decades of insufficient investment have forced a historic number of districts into an impossible situation. "We cannot afford to keep pulling resources away from public schools to fund private ones and expect both to thrive." #StateOfEdWI
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From Microsoft announcement here of $4B investment into the “most powerful computer on the plant X 10” Pres. Brad Smith noted, we are NOT a threat to Lake Michigan water, using max of 4 Olympic pools worth a year. Lake Michigan = 1.9 Trillion Olympic pools.
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Don't miss the largest bi-annual business event in Wisconsin - October 9 - Great Food, Drink & Company, @MMAC_Chamber 's All Members Meeting!! mmac.org/amm/
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WISCONSIN PUBLIC SCHOOL ENROLLMENT PROJECTIONS Good news: at 801,207, Wisconsin beat @AppliedPopLab's 2025 estimate. Bad news: the baby bust is here. 2030: -61,371/-7.7% 2035: -118,613/-14.8% By 2030, we would have the fewest students since the 1950s, when DPI's public data ends!
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“A mind is like a parachute, it only works when it’s open” Frank Zappa
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We @cfc_mke will have more to say as this process unfolds over the coming weeks - but there is no more critical challenge for our city to face than how we manage rightsizing AND improving outcomes across our k12 school ecosystem. jsonline.com/story/news/educ…
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Money, trust, or enrollment can run out. Milwaukee Public Schools has a difficult task: manage what parents perceive as the death of education (closing a school building, complicating their lives) versus what actually is (the slow poison of underinvestment and low achievement).
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Badgers kick off season tomorrow with reportedly one of toughest schedules in CF. Deal with it Bucky👊 The 2016 team played 6 top 15 ranked teams went 11-3, then in ‘17 went 13-1. Badger Nation🦡
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Perspective in an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine…
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A key issue - and one DPI's own team also pointed out last year: because of how DPI lowered the bar, low-poverty schools got 9x the report card bump as higher-poverty ones. We shouldn't set lower expectations for any of our students, just because of their families' income.
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53 of 58 House Democrats who are either running for reelection or have not yet made plans public are age 70 or older. Admittedly I am closer to seventy than sixty, but…term limits? Not sure Republican #’s, credit Axios for insight.
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