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Bay View High School student Soleil Harvey speaks at a rally on the MPS budget held by Leaders Igniting Transformation, a student advocacy group. LIT supported the creation of a department to uplift Black and Latino girls, modeled after an existing department focused on boys.
As part of its budget for next year, the Milwaukee Public Schools Board voted to create a new department focused on Black and Latino girls, gender nonconforming students and LGBTQ+ students.
It’s modeled on MPS’s Department of Black and Latino Male Achievement, which has been around since 2017 and provides mentoring and classes for male students of color.
Milwaukee Public Schools administrators have rolled out proposals for spending $225 million, the second of three installments of federal stimulus funds, to improve air quality, provide tutoring and mental health services, update curriculum and many other measures.
Administrators presented the plans, along with Superintendent Keith Posley’s full budget proposal for the next school year, to school board members Thursday night. Community members can comment on the proposals at public hearings May 18 and 20.
MPS, along with school districts across the country, is receiving three rounds of federal stimulus dollars under the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund, or ESSER. Districts are allocated funds based largely on how many students they serve from low-income families.