Mark Freeland comes to the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee from South Dakota State University. He is coming on board just as the Electa Quinney Institute for American Indian Education receives a major $3 million gift from Bader Philanthropies.

Milwaukee Public Schools will require masks when Milwaukee County is in the CDC-defined high COVID category, which is based on COVID hospitalizations and cases.

The studio is housed within the Milwaukee Academy of Science charter school in the Avenues West neighborhood. It is a collaboration between the school, the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee, and a national nonprofit called Notes for Notes.

Wisconsin used to be one of the states that spent the most on K-12 schools. By 2020, that changed.

In June, a Muskego-Norway School Board committee refused to include a novel about Japanese American wartime incarceration in an accelerated English class.

The Paris School District in rural southeastern Wisconsin declined about $320,000 in federal funding. Experts haven't heard of any other district in the country turning down the aid.

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

The UW Board of Regents, somewhat reluctantly, voted Thursday to extend the tuition freeze in the upcoming school year.

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.

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.