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ALESANDRA TEJEDA/WUWMMilwaukee Public Schools leaders will vote this week on a 2026 budget that includes cutting assistant principal positions and adding teachers. -
Xcaret Nuñez/WUWMKing’s Chord is Rufus King High School’s a cappella group. They’re the first Milwaukee Public School to compete in the International Championship of High School A Cappella, the competition that inspired the hit movie "Pitch Perfect."
Help WUWM Education Reporter Katherine Kokal dig deeper into schools and the education issues you are most concerned about.
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A WUWM listener asked why colleges in Milwaukee don't offer African languages as foreign languages. Marquette and UWM only offer Arabic. -
The program is MPL's latest intervention in the literacy crisis, hoping to improve young readers' letter recognition and kindergarten readiness. -
An audit found that Milwaukee Public Schools overspent its budget last school year by $46 million. Now, leaders are considering cuts to jobs. -
Milwaukee native Malik Johnson is a cellist, composer and music producer. He became the first Betty Brinn artist in residence last year and returns to the role this year. -
What we can take away from looking back at European society’s descent into systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of Jews and others? -
Marquette University is technically the third home of the St. Joan of Arc Chapel, which was built in France around 1420. -
What does it mean to be Jewish? A new initiative in Wisconsin schools explores just that. -
Milwaukee is required to have school resource officers on some campuses after a 2025 ruling. Do they make students safer? -
There are only about 120 complete sets of John James Audubon’s Birds of America in the world today, and one of them is at the Milwaukee Public Library's Richard and Lucile Krug Rare Books Room. -
Data from the Department of Public Instruction show that nearly half of Wisconsin private school students use vouchers to pay for private school tuition, according to reporting from Wisconsin Watch.
