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Earn and Learn is still taking applications for the upcoming summer through May 27. NNS file photo.
It’s not too late for young people to get a summer job through the city’s Earn and Learn program.
While Earn and Learn is no longer taking applications for its Summer Youth Internship Program, it is accepting applications for its Community Work Experience component, which matches young people with part-time summer jobs. The Summer Youth Internship Program places young people in roles with city government
Joshua Johnson, state director of the Wisconsin Apprenticeship Program, is famous for saying, “apprenticeship is for everyone.”
However, recent numbers suggest the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated racial disparities in the construction industry, and retaining Black apprentices in that industry may pose one of the state program’s biggest challenges to date.
Apprenticeships, paid training opportunities that can last three to seven years, represent the primary way people interested in construction careers become journeyworkers in trades such as plumbing, bricklaying and electrical work.
Based on state Department of Workforce Development statistics, the share of minority construction apprentices in Milwaukee fell from a high of 17% in 2009 to 15% last year; the share of Black construction apprentices fell from 9% to 5%.
About half of Milwaukee voters will elect new school board members April 6, with no incumbents running for four open seats.
Two of the races have only one candidate on the ballot: Walker’s Point Center for the Arts executive director Marcela Garcia for the south side District 6 seat now held by Tony Baez; and recently retired Milwaukee Public Schools teacher Harry Leonard for the southwest District 7 seat held by Paula Phillips.
The north side District 4 seat is contested between Silver Spring Neighborhood Center Opportunity Youth Program Director Aisha Carr and North Side Rising organizer Dana Kelley.
Running for District 5 on the east side are Alex Brower, director of Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans; and Jilly Gokalgandhi, Equity in Education team member at American Family Insurance Institute.
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The year 2021 heightens our awareness of progressive leadership in transformational change. Woman are known to be pioneers of progressive change movements in history and remains true today. Embracing the theme,
Onward & Upward: The Era of the Empowered Woman, the UW–Madison Division of Diversity, Equity & Educational Achievement in partnership with the National Diversity Council, presents the 8th annual Women in Leadership Virtual Symposium on Friday, March 26 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
This half-day seminar and networking event presents a diverse representation of women in executive leadership roles, who will educate, inspire and encourage women to embrace their individual talents and skills to advance change within their organizations and career trajectories.