Emily Files
Education ReporterEmily has been reporting on Milwaukee-area education for WUWM since 2018.
She began as a reporter for KRBD in Ketchikan, Alaska where she once covered a bear interrupting a high school cross country race. She then worked as a reporter and eventually news director at KHNS Radio in Haines, where she reported on a man in a bear costume harassing actual bears. Aside from the occasional bear story, Emily covered the local politics, tribal issues, hunting, fishing and, of course, education.
Emily is originally from the Chicago area. She studied journalism at Emerson College in Boston, where she reported her very first radio stories for college station WERS.
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Wisconsin has an 1849 law that bans abortion, except to save the life of the mother. But whether that law is enforceable is expected to be the center of yet-to-be-filed lawsuits. Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul, a Democrat, said he would have news next week about next steps in reaction to the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling striking down Roe v. Wade. -
The UW Board of Regents, somewhat reluctantly, voted Thursday to extend the tuition freeze in the upcoming school year.
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Gov. Tony Evers is bringing the Legislature into a special session June 22 to consider a repeal of Wisconsin's 1849 criminal abortion ban. However, one Republican legislative leader already rejected Evers' call to take action.
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The class of 2022 were sophomores when the coronavirus pandemic shuttered schools. MPS leaders made the decision to stay virtual for most of their junior year. This week, about 3,500 MPS seniors graduated.
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Marquette University's On Your Marq launched three years ago to help students on the autism spectrum navigate college through social and academic coaching. The support program celebrated its first graduate this month.
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Teachers, school social workers and activists rallied against gun violence Wednesday in Milwaukee.
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WUWM is featuring the stories of MATC students, talking about their education journeys with someone who helped them along the way. In the last installment, we hear from Corey Lee — a father of two who graduated with a business management degree in December.
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The Milwaukee Public Schools Board is set to approve its $1.3 billion budget for the upcoming school year this week. The Wisconsin Policy Forum digs into MPS’s complicated financial picture in a new report.
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WUWM is featuring the stories of MATC students, talking about their education journeys with someone who helped them along the way. Tiffany Mosby dropped out of high school as a junior, after struggling to read for years. As an adult, she took classes at Literacy Services to improve her reading so she could get her GED and go to college.
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Milwaukee’s mayor and police chief visited Milwaukee Public Schools students Tuesday to respond to their concerns about reckless driving.
