Education & Workforce Development

The Milwaukee Academy of Science recently reached its target $1.1 million mark in its capital campaign, thanks to significant support from PAVE, a nonprofit organization committed to making quality education accessible to all students in Milwaukee.

Wisconsin’s employers and workers will benefit from a new $23.1 million investment by the U.S. Department of Labor, which on Wednesday announced a grant to Wisconsin’s 16 technical colleges to address emerging needs in the information technology (IT) sector.

Wisconsin’s employers and workers will benefit from a new $23.1 million investment by the U.S. Department of Labor, which today announced a grant to Wisconsin’s 16 technical colleges to address emerging needs in the information technology (IT) sector.

The Milwaukee Board of School Directors passed a motion to direct MPS administration to consult the school district’s legal counsel on the potential sale or lease of the former Malcolm X Academy property during a special public meeting Thursday night.

U.S. employers are more optimistic about the final quarter of 2013 than they have been in any fourth quarter since the start of the Great Recession, but Wisconsin employers are lagging behind their national counterparts in the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey.

Should Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) sell some of its vacant buildings to charter or voucher schools?

The current policies of the Wisconsin state government are holding the state’s economy back, not sparking job growth, according to Milwaukee futurist Bob Chernow.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee will present a Talent Conference to explore how top companies are recruiting and retaining talented professionals.

On the day I met and interviewed Rebecca Blank, the newly appointed chancellor at the University of Wisconsin, one of the headlines of the day out of Madison was that a journalist had been arrested because he was reporting that people were being arrested for gathering and singing in the Capitol building without a permit.

Should Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) sell some of its vacant buildings to charter or voucher schools?