Results from the latest People Matter survey were provided to staff in January. The survey, which was completed in October, showed that figures regarding sexual harassment and bullying were steady, despite staff spending much of the time since the previous survey working from home, and efforts from management to improve the culture.
Since that time, three more senior women and other female staff have left the agency or tendered their resignations.
Veronica McGowan, the head of communications, left after Megan OâHalloran, a former work colleague of Ibacâs chief executive, Marlo Baragwanath, was appointed into a newly created senior communications role. The new role would have relegated McGowan, who had been at the agency since 2016, to a less senior position.
Peterson is one of the founders of the progressive educational publication,
Rethinking Schools. It published the book,
Rethinking Columbus, which became an instant best seller starting in the early 90s. It outlined how
Christopher Columbus was not a heroic explorer, but rather an exploiter of the riches in the New World, killing and enslaving the peoples of the Caribbean. Given that much of the “rethinking” started in Milwaukee, and that many school districts around the country have already established Indigenous Peoples’ Day, it is surprising that it took so long for MPS to come to this resolution.
A defeat of a Wisconsin Association of School Boards (WASB) resolution in January 2020 calling for the end of Native American school mascots prompted the Milwaukee board to take stronger action, says Peterson. It took another year for WASB to pass a resolution that questioned the use of racial depictions in school mascots and logos.
Abbie Fishman, Jilly Gokalgandhi, Kahri Phelps Okoro and Alex Brower.
Next week voters head to the polls again – as four of the nine seats on the Milwaukee Board of School Directors are up for re-election.
In District 5, which includes parts of Harambee, Riverwest, downtown and the East Side, four candidates will be on the ballot for the Feb. 16 primary. After the primary, two candidates will move on to the general election on April 6.
Early voting is open at City Hall until 5 p.m. Friday. You can find your Election Day polling place here.
Below is biographic information for candidates and answers to five questions about why they feel they are qualified and what they think about some of the school board’s current issues.
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