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In an effort to boost college enrollment and affordability, Milwaukee Public Schools is set to make FAFSA completion a graduation requirement.

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.

Teachers, school social workers and activists rallied against gun violence Wednesday in Milwaukee.

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.

Milwaukee’s mayor and police chief visited Milwaukee Public Schools students Tuesday to respond to their concerns about reckless driving.

Superintendent Keith Posley said the main metric MPS is using to determine its mask policy is the city of Milwaukee’s COVID case burden.

Tuesday, many MPS students and teachers went to school without masks for the first time in two years.

Milwaukee Public Schools is set to make face masks optional on April 18.

Students go to school to learn reading, writing and math. But what if they also were taught how to open a bank account, create a budget and build a good credit score? Personal finance education has been growing in Milwaukee at the high school and college level.

In February, Wisconsin Assembly Republicans passed a bill to break up Milwaukee Public Schools. On Tuesday, Senate Republicans did the same, which now sends the legislation to Gov. Tony Evers.