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. She interned at NPR’s Weekend Edition, The Boston Globe and PRI’s The World. Emily’s work has aired on Marketplace, NPR’s Only a Game, and The World.
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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee admissions staff hit the road in Wisconsin and northern Illinois, visiting high schools to answer admitted students’ questions and to encourage them to enroll. -
Wisconsin’s largest private university is requiring students attending in-person classes this fall to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by August 1.
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Wisconsin public school leaders are frustrated with the education funding plan approved by the Legislature’s budget-writing committee last week.
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Milwaukee Public Schools is committing to a full return to in-person learning next school year amid concerns about enrollment and learning loss.
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The MPS Board is using about $440,000 in federal stimulus funding to create a new department focused on improving outcomes for Black and Latina girls, gender nonconforming students and LGBTQ+ students.
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A Republican budget plan has approved approve less than 10% of what Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' $1.6 billion in new education spending.
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An ambitious plan to expand music education in MPS is underway with about 40 new teacher hires this year and next. It’s funded through a taxpayer referendum approved by voters last spring.
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The Milwaukee Public Schools board is deciding on its budget for the upcoming school year. There are a lot of moving pieces making the financial picture uncertain, and maybe even optimistic — including more than $700 million federal stimulus funds.
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Milwaukee city and county officials are preparing to vaccinate younger teenagers against COVID-19, likely beginning later this week.
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Milwaukee Public Schools is starting to determine to how it will spend $731 million in federal stimulus aid over the next three years.
