MILWAUKEE – Revenues are down for Milwaukee Public Schools, so officials are forced to prioritize spending on the most important things.
Apparently, that includes a new $471,073 expenditure for “Black Lives Matter,” according to News Talk 1130, which posted a copy of the district’s official budget notice published in Wednesday’s Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
“The proposal does not specify why exactly MPS needs to spend $471,073 on Black Lives Matter, but it is interesting that the district plans to spend nearly as much on this organization as it plans to spend on College Access Centers, Universal Driver Education, and Advanced Studies and World Languages,” the news site pointed out.
“This budget reflects our plan to succeed,” MPS Superintendent Darienne Driver said earlier this week when she announced the budget, which also includes $12 million in raises, and a $26.6 million increase in “direct spending on students in the classroom,” theJournal Sentinel reports.
“It is a blueprint for building on past accomplishments and funding future achievement,” she said.
And while it’s unclear what exactly MPS plans to do with the half-million it plans to spend on Black Lives Matter, blogger Larry Miller outlined a Black Lives Matter resolution he introduced to the MPS board along with University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee professor Robert Smith that would set broad objectives schools should strive for.
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This is blatant discrimination. PERIOD.
ReplyDeleteUnreal but the Obama thug parents won't go to a council meeting to protest then again why would they.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to donate $471,000 Toni don't give a crap. All lives matter. Grow up!!!!
ReplyDeleteIt sounds to me like the next Detroit.
ReplyDeleteTaxpayers there need to revolt and riot, burn and destroy, that is what you do when you are mad or don't like the way things are done!
ReplyDeleteI know a city mayor that even said so!
Then they don't need our money. map
ReplyDeleteI liked the "...building on past accomplishments..." part.
ReplyDeleteYou mean a double digit dropout rate, test scores in single digits, absenteeism off the charts, gang fight in schools, teachers getting beat up in their own classroom, and don't forget drug dealing.
They SHOULD be proud. They're not the worst in the nation.
And blm is going to fix all that, right?
Keep cheering.