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

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.

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.

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.

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

Our series featuring the personal stories of MATC students continues with Liana Howard, a mom and aspiring nurse who took her nursing pre-requisites at MATC during the pandemic.

Last August, about 150 students from the Asian University for Women were evacuated from Afghanistan as the Taliban took over. Eight of them are now studying at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

What challenges are today’s college students facing, and what motivates them to earn their degree? MATC student Troy Muns talks about these questions with someone who has helped him on his education journey.

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.