Another initiative to fix Milwaukee education, but let's give it a shot

Alan Borsuk:

If Milwaukee needs a big, well-crafted, we're-all-in-this-together effort by a wide-range of power players working on meeting the educational needs of so many thousands of our children, why do I sense so much reluctance to be enthusiastic about an effort that aims to be all of those things?

Two simple answers:

Because we've been down roads like this before and nothing much came from them.

Because a lot of people, including some of those power players, are skeptical about our collective ability to make real progress.

I'm sympathetic with both of those points.

For years, I've seen community leaders of all kinds say good things (and often mean them) and come up with no consequential results.

I, too, suffer from oh-no-not-another-big-initiative syndrome. And we all know how deeply entrenched our problems are.

But overall, I say: It's time to get moving, folks.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 16, 2011 1:19 AM
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