What does MPS stand for?

The Institute is headed by Howard Fuller, a voucher advocate and former Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent.

1 million be immediately set aside for the Milwaukee Public Schools.

to audit the finances of the Milwaukee Public Schools.

Heads understandably turned last October when the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel announced the release of a new study concluding that "school choice isn't a powerful tool for driving educational improvement in Milwaukee Public Schools.

The Milwaukee Public Schools plan is meant to be acted on immediately, but it claims to provide for years of improvement.

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With a temperature of 12 below zero and wind chill of 31 below, Wisconsin's largest school district, Milwaukee Public Schools, also shut down, idling about 90,000 children.

Waiting for the right time of the month paid off for Malvene Townsend, a 73-year-old retired public school teacher for Milwaukee Public Schools, who decided to buy a new Honda Accord LX in February and donate her 1995 Buick Skylark to a local agency that helps troubled teens.