Education

• Cost of back-to-school essentials — glue, markers, pens, backpacks — has jumped
• New UW-Madison chancellor visits Milwaukee amid biggest application wave ever
• Health experts concerned about monkeypox ahead of back-to-school season
• Burlington teacher who attended Jan. 6 riot resigns
• MPS awards $250,000 for students going to college
• Wisconsin high school senior's artwork selected as a winner in Doodle for Google competition
• Election education campaign planned for Wisconsin
• Dozens protest in support of Asian American book, Muskego school board says content was not the reason it wasn't approved
• High school students get real estate lesson from Bucks' Pat Connaughton
• Milwaukee's Neeskara Elementary School unearths hidden treasures during redevelopment project
• Student loan interest accumulation could change under a proposed rule. Here's what it means for you
• MATC receives $112,000 donation for expansion of DACA Plus scholarship program
• UWM joins Amazon Career Choice program, offering some employees up to $5,250 per year in tuition
• Racine & Me: Wisconsin Reading Corps in need of tutors
• School Bulletin: Friends fighting for change
• 2022 Milwaukee Public Schools seniors receive $107 million in scholarships
• School Bulletin: Graduates earn double degrees
• Department of Public Instruction grants $8.7 million in funding to Wisconsin charter schools
• Milwaukee Public Schools to close early Tuesday due to predicted heat
• School Bulletin: Folding cranes for Ukraine
• Milwaukee police, MPS partner with app to share school safety information
• St. Augustine Prep Academy announces groundbreaking expansion
• Racine elementary school celebrates last day of the year with field day celebration
• School Bulletin: Students combine forces to win state, national titles
• West Allis-West Milwaukee School Board to consider consolidating several schools
• Biden administration cancels $5.8 billion in student loan debt for former Corinthian students
• Universal drivers education program proposed for all Milwaukee high school students
• 25 Rufus King High School graduates tie for valedictorian
• School Bulletin: Achieving a perfect score
• Student loan forgiveness divides Americans more by party and age than by education
• Student with brain cancer granted dying wish to graduate high school
• 8 inmates graduate from MATC while in custody as part of "Second Chance" program
• Local university students honored at college graduations
• School Bulletin: Full STEAM ahead at Fratt Elementary
• Cristo Rey Jesuit High School celebrates 100% of students getting accepted into colleges
• Madison School District tests out anti-racist microschool
• How resilient is the US consumer?
• School Bulletin: Small steps make big impact for Ukrainian refugees
• Texas teen making history as youngest ever Black law graduate in US
• Mom creates subscription service for school supplies to help teachers
• MUHS principal, dean will sleep on the roof as part of Feeding America fundraiser
• 'A Light in the Dark': Wauwatosa Catholic students turn classroom into Holocaust museum
• 'Smart Start': MPS partners with area colleges to help students transition to college life
• School Bulletin: Teacher appreciation gets a surprise boost
• More than 300 MPS students show off their scientific talent in the 15th annual STEM Fair
• Groundbreaking ceremony marks construction on new UWM Innovation Campus building
• Most approve police officers in schools after MPS removes them, WPPA poll finds
• Students take part in Waste Free Crew Day at American Family Field
• Packers legend Donald Driver reads his children's books to Milwaukee students
• College campuses shine light on suicide prevention awareness following student-athlete deaths
• School Bulletin: Scholarship surprise for Wauwatosa student
• Willem Dafoe announced as UWM spring commencement speaker
• MPS to spend part of COVID relief funds on staff, busing, and literacy
• UW-Madison provost, 4 others named as chancellor finalists
• Report: 2021 marked first drop in US preschool enrollment in 20 years
• Death Cafe: MATC students gather to eat, drink and talk about mortality at pop-up event
• Milwaukee high school student has nursing license thanks to MPS college program
• School Bulletin: 'Canning' the principal
• More than 100 Milwaukee-area students commit to colleges across the nation, earning $17 million in scholarships
• To mask or not to mask? Milwaukee schools, buses reverse course on mask mandates within 24 hours
• Milwaukee Health Department says it supports Milwaukee Public Schools' decision to reinstate mask mandate
• Milwaukee Public Schools reinstates mask mandate
• Brother, sister-in-law of Michelle Obama suing private Milwaukee school
• Milwaukee Public Schools teams up with the UN Association of Greater Milwaukee for lesson on diversity
• Florida rejects 41% of new math textbooks, citing critical race theory among its reasons
• 'People are just outraged': Police investigating vandalism at Greenfield elementary school
• Evers visits West Bend, touts 'Get Kids Ahead' program supporting mental health services
• School Bulletin: Planetarium expands orbit to include Spanish programs
• SHARP Literacy hosts student design challenge at Wisconsin Center
• Brewers host 300 MPS students for career experience day at American Family Field
• UW delays free speech survey after interim chancellor quit
• Student loan expert offers advice for borrowers as moratorium is extended
• West Allis-West Milwaukee School Board, community members look for middle ground after failed referendum
• Gov. Evers awards $966K to MPS for school-based mental health initiatives
• Candidates make final pitch to voters hours before spring election
• Political agendas, endorsements playing a major role in school board elections
• School Bulletin: Tapping into natural resources
• Summer registration begins for Earn and Learn employment program
• 'It's too soon': MPS families react to decision to drop mask requirements in school
• New study claims Black MPS students disproportionately punished and suspended
• School Bulletin: Class defines kindness with published book
• MSOE students take part in annual egg drop contest
• Cinderella Project MKE is back to help send youth in need to prom
• Wisconsin DNR welcomes submissions to children's Air, Air, Everywhere Poetry Contest
• School Bulletin: Drone program takes flight with first pilot
• Weapon fired inside Jerstad-Agerholm Elementary School in Racine
• Embattled St. Thomas More boys basketball team advances to sectional final
• Milwaukee School Board shuts down four-day school week
• #MightySmallMoments: New city initiative to end achievement gap
• Spending bill aims to close vaping loophole
• Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee partner with Admirals to open The Ready Center
• Teachers reach deal to avert strike in St. Paul, Minnesota
• School Bulletin: Young composers tune into apps
• Maple Syrup harvest season kicks off in southeast Wisconsin
• Milwaukee launches a digital literacy class on the North Side in hopes to unlock social and economical opportunities for low income communities
• Should Milwaukee Public Schools implement a 4-day school week?
• Bucks' Brook Lopez to buy books for every student at 3 MPS schools
• More than a dozen UWM students taken to area hospitals after exposure to carbon monoxide at residence hall
• Area schools consider updating masking policies
• Police arrest 14-year-old in connection with fatal shooting near Albuquerque high school