Monday, April 23, 2012
Tosa School of the Trades will be closed due to insufficient enrollment after it dropped to just 13 students. The first-year Montessori school, meanwhile, has proven popular and adding even one sixth-grade student is feasible.
The Wauwatosa School Board voted Monday night to expand one of its charter schools and close another, at least for now. The Wauwatosa Montessori School, housed at the Fisher Building, 12121 W. North Ave. and offering 4-year-old kindergarten through fifth grades, will offer a sixth-grade level beginning in the fall. But the Tosa School of the Trades, a high school-level charter school also at Fisher, will have its charter terminated because there is not enough enrollment. The trades school was started to address the need for some students who are not college-bound to learn workplace skills such as welding. The school was never intended to be large, but it has in fact shrunk by almost half. Maximum enrollment at Trades was 22, said William …
Monday, January 30, 2012
Company's presentation on proposal to take place at same meeting where committee will debate on an official city stance against it.
Things could get lively Tuesday night at City Hall as a committee has combined a presentation from the company wanting to build power lines along a Wauwatosa parkway with a Common Council resolution condemning that very plan. The Community Development Committee meets at 8 p.m. and at the last minute joined up a presentation from American Transmission Co. and the introduction of a resolution opposing the parkway route – together, as the last item on its agenda. The committee usually meets in a room that holds up to a few dozen audience members, but in light of an expected large crowd, it has been moved to the full Common Council chambers for this matchup. ATC's plans call for building two new 138,000-volt transmission lines, one from the …
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Spurred by citizens of Wauwatosa, the committee on Parks, Energy, and Environment unanimously passes resolution opposing power lines in all county parks.
A standing-room only crowd greeted a Milwaukee County Board committee Tuesday as it unanimously recommended a resolution opposing power lines in a Wauwatosa parkway and overhead lines in an adjacent neighborhood in Milwaukee. As the Milwaukee County Board’s Committee on Parks, Energy and Environment (PE&E) met to discuss the power line routes, the hearing room buzzed with energy. Unprepared for the overflow crowd, committee chairman Gerry Broderick called the meeting to order while people were still streaming into the packed hearing chamber. Many began to sit on the floor. At issue was a plan by American Transmission Co. (ATC) to build power lines along Underwood Creek Parkway in Wauwatosa. In addition to formally opposing “the proposed …
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Monday, June 13, 2011
Wauwatosa 2011-12 school budget is balanced and $8 million below last year's level.
On March 25, less than three months ago, the Wauwatosa School District was suddenly presented with a monumental dilemma when the state budget battle in Madison blasted a $6.5 million hole in its own budget projections. Superintendent Phil Ertl said more than once in April, "This is the biggest challenge we have ever faced." And 34-year veteran School Board member Lois Weber echoed and confirmed that statement: It was like nothing she had ever seen. On Monday night, district officials did what seemed impossible a few weeks ago. They presented the board with a balanced budget that contains no significant cuts in jobs or school programming. The feat was done as Ertl said it would have to be done — not on the backs of children in the classroom…
Jim Price
1:35 pm on Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Walker Backer, through my own oversight, I forgot to add to this story what has been stated in previous stories on this subject, which is that nobody opposes or disagrees with the need for more power to County Grounds institutions – only the routes and methods of bringing it. I have updated this story to reflect that. Statements on the need for more power are included in the City of Milwaukee, … more ›