Milwaukee Public Schools board members on Tuesday elected Bob Peterson as president and Sequanna Taylor as vice president of the board for the next year.
Peterson, who has been on the board since 2019, previously served as president of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association, the union for MPS staff. He is also on the editorial board for Rethinking Schools, a magazine he helped found.
Peterson started working for MPS in 1977 as a paraprofessional. After earning his teaching degree, he taught for 30 years and co-founded La Escuela Fratney, according to the MPS website. He earned a master s degree in curriculum instruction with an emphasis on bilingual education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and a doctorate with a dissertation on anti-racist teaching from Cardinal Stritch University.