Students are getting involved
in charting their own course
While adults are dithering and trying to work the angles
and technicalities of school-funding reform, students around
Wisconsin watching their educational opportunities erode and
their futures cloud over.
No more, though. Young people are waking up and taking charge
by telling adults what is really being lost because of a school-funding
system that no longer works for kids, schools, or communities.
Jake Berg has produced an eight-minute video entitled “The
Library is Closed” that tells the story of
what is happening in schools from one end of the state to
the other. Jake, a junior in the telecommunications program
and Waukesha West High School, entered the video in the C-Span
Student Cam Competition. It is must viewing for everyone -
especially legislators who can’t find a good enough
reason to reform Wisconsin’s school-finance crisis.
Also, students in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) and the
South Milwaukee School District took their message to the
public last week. Hundreds
of students, parents, and staff from MPS schools turned out
to voice their opposition to potential cuts but also to
urge changes at the state level. Many endorsed “A Penny
for Kids,” WAES’s effort to increase the sales
tax by one-cent. Students
also led the way to deliver the same message to the school
board in South Milwaukee, where “they’re
working on developing a coalition to change how state
funding is determined.”
News
clip from South Milwaukee
Article in the Milwaukee
Jorunal Sentinel
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