"Let's put the kids first"

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Editorial:

The new board must not chase away Andrekopoulos. He has worked indefatigably and creatively to transform MPS into an effective system of schools.

We have referred to one board faction as the reform wing and the other as the union wing. Those labels best describe what unites them but not necessarily what divides them. The reform side is not necessarily anti-union, and the union side is not necessarily anti-reform.

Bonds, an education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, may find board support for his call for a more rigorous curriculum. We backed Bonds but hope he doesn't take the board down the policy cul-de-sac of renewed busing. It won't lead to more integration, his stated goal, for lack of white students to go around.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 6, 2007 1:17 AM
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