Friday, February 8, 2013
Wauwatosa community members continued to discuss ways to make traffic safer in school zones.
Parents, teachers, city officials and school administrators addressed traffic issues around Madison Elementary School and along Center Street corridor where West High, Whitman Middle and Eisenhower Elementary. Last year the city and school district agreed to each pay half the cost of hiring Ayres Associates, a firm with specialists in traffic engineering, to look at ways to improve safety in those zones. During the public forum last week a consultant from Ayres said that conflict lied mostly in pickup and drop-off periods where there is high traffic volume, high speeds, children leaving cars and crossing streets, reported Wauwatosa Now. It was even said that parents also present a danger. Last year the Wauwatosa School Board approved …
Thursday, January 31, 2013
A presentation was given by a University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor about how to address school safety a few days after a second-grade student bought a knife to school.
The Wauwatosa School Board heard a school safety presentation soon after a second-grade student brought a knife to school, reported Wauwatosa Now. The pupil brought a knife to Washington Elementary School on at least two days before it was taken from him. The knife was taken from the student Thursday, Jan. 24. Principal Anthony Bonds sent an email Friday, Jan. 25 to parents notifying them of the situation. But a number of parents were upset by the way the situation was handled, in particularly with the timing of the notification. By the time Bonds sent out the email some parents had already heard about the situation from their children. Some of the children told parents they were threaten. Wauwatosa Now reported that Trish Lipscomb …
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Citizens of each aldermanic district, beginning with No. 2, will get a chance to talk to their elected officials about issues in their neighborhoods.
Wauwatosa Mayor Kathy Ehley and the Common Council members representing each of Tosa's eight aldermanic districts will begin this week a series of informal Town Hall-style meetings to hear and discuss issues of interest or concern to citizens. The first meeting will be for District 2, where Ehley will be joined by Alds. Kathleen Causier and John Dubinski. It will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday at the Wauwatosa Woman's Club, 1626 Wauwatosa Ave. Among the issues on the agenda for discussion are: Citizens of the 2nd District are welcome to bring up other items for discussion. District 2 encompasses most of the Village east to North 68th Street; Hart Park and a few homes south of the Menomonee River; the northeast quadrant of the County …
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Parents say there were schoolyard threats involved and that they should have been notified sooner of the incident. But Washington's principal says his investigation suggests there were no threats and the incident was minor.
A second-grade pupil brought a knife to Washington Elementary School on at least two days last week before it was taken from him, according to the principal and parents. Principal Anthony Bonds wrote in an email Friday to parents that the knife was immediately confiscated at the start of the school day last Thursday, that he immediately undertook an investigation and that appropriate disciplinary measures were taken. But a number of parents are upset by the way the situation was handled, and some questioned Bonds' version of events. To begin with, several parents said that their children and other children were aware their schoolmate had the knife with him in school on Wednesday, and at least one parent said she alerted school officials …
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Washington Elementary School
2166 N 68th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Knife confiscated from second-grader last week
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Sunday, January 6, 2013
Sarah Lerand saw an accident waiting to happen and decided to prevent it. One alderman was enlisted to help her accomplish that, another was inspired to level-up the effort, and together, they led Tosa light-years forward on school zone safety.
It's rather convenient for an editor when, having solicited nominations for an honor, those most-nominated all share a common ground for which they are being applauded. While two stories are better for business than one, and four are better than two, Wauwatosa Patch has decided to gang up the three people who were most widely recognized, along with the beneficial public policy they all helped create, promote and expand: school zone safety. Without further ado: The principal extra-good person of the year, in the view of Patch readers, is Sarah Lerand, a parent at McKinley Elementary School who gave over much of her time and energy to keeping Wauwatosa's children safe going to and from school. Having laid the groundwork throughout 2011, …
Friday, December 14, 2012
Tosa School District has trained for the day, with police and fire departments, when it might have to deal with crisis – and has dealt with it before.
The Wauwatosa School District, no stranger to tragedy, has quietly taken steps to prevent or deal as swiftly and effectively as possible with the kind of threat that ended in horror Friday morning at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, with 27 dead, most of them young children. "We have a crisis response plan in place," said Dan Chanen, human resources and communications director for the district. "We all have different response roles should anything like this happen. "Last spring, we conducted a multi-agency drill, with the police and fire departments, to react to just this sort of tragedy." The police and fire departments also regularly conduct their own departmental and joint trainings for "active shooter" and "multiple victim" …
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Wauwatosa West High School
11400 W Center St, Wauwatosa, WI
The 1993 murder of Associate Principal Dale Breitlow is an ongoing reminder of security needs
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Among the recommendations they'll make for the neighborhood south of three school on Center Street – it's time to install pedestrian walkways.
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Monday, December 10, 2012
Sidewalks may need to be in the future of a Wauwatosa neighborhood that has never had them. After accidents in which students were struck by cars, several Wauwatosa school zones were targeted for traffic safety studies. One, Wauwatosa Avenue north of North Avenue, got a quick treatment this year after a boy's leg was severely fractured while he was crossing to get to Longfellow Middle School. But even before that incident, the city and the Wauwatosa School District were looking at two other school areas where less serious accidents had occurred: West Center Street between Mayfair Road and North 124th Street, where (from east to west) Whitman Middle School, West High School and Eisenhower Elementary School stand along the north side of …
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Madison Elementary School
9925 W Glendale Ave, Wauwatosa, WI
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Sunday, September 16, 2012
A ban at Waukesha West rankled some students and parents, though it's been done in other areas of the country. Administrators cite safety reasons; students say backpacks are more efficient.
Waukesha West High School banned backpacks during the school day this year. Principal David Towers said the ban was made for issues of safety and to prevent contraband —drugs, alcohol and weapons — from being carried around. Such bans have taken place elsewhere, both permanently and temporarily. Fargo, ND, schools took the step last year. And a school district in New York state banned backpacks and purses for a period last spring following two arrests, one for a marijuana sale and one for a gun threat. Students, predictably, were displeased. Some started a Facebook event to rally protests; though more than 300 people joined the event, nobody has posted to the page since Sept. 6. But anyone who spent their high school days lugging stacks of…
Thursday, September 13, 2012
School zone is a traffic disaster area, but McKinley community was prepared when sewer project surrounded it, and dealt with it by becoming foot soldiers.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
When kids, parents and staff returned to McKinley Elementary School this fall, it was to a different landscape. Orange barrels had sprouted throughout the neighborhood like a flush of mushrooms. Signs flourished, too – "Road Closed," "Sidewalk Closed," they said. Many in the McKinley family had to take new ways to get there. Dump trucks and backhoes rumbled and roamed, some of them looking like huge mechanical dinosaurs. And then there was the street itself, on the south side of the school. Meinecke Avenue was gone. Gone along with all the trees that had lined it. But it could have been a lot worse. "I stood in front of McKinley last Tuesday," said Ald. Jeff Roznowski, "looking at our trench all filled with gravel." If it had not been for …
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McKinley Elementary School
2435 N 89th St, Wauwatosa, WI
Dealing with Meinecke Sewer Project
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
In wake of school-crossing accident, avenue between North and Center will get parking lane and bike lane stripes, ending legal passing on the right.
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Wednesday, August 1, 2012
"We have a tendency to build our streets like highways," a traffic consultant told city officials and the public Tuesday night. On few stretches of public street is that more true than on part of Wauwatosa Avenue north of North Avenue. Variously described as "a free-for-all," "the Autobahn" and, simply, "a nightmare," Wauwatosa Avenue from North Avenue to Center Street is wide and unmarked, with plenty of room for rushing commuters to make up their own lanes and the rules to go with them. Those rules seldom respect other uses for public streets, including travel by bicycle and crossing on foot. That's about to change, and soon, as aldermen and city staff have moved to do something about safety on the busy route before school starts Sept. 4…
Betty Rubble
9:49 am on Saturday, February 9, 2013
A round-about would be ideal at 114th and Center. If not, then enforce a right-turn only policy. more ›