Educator upbeat about big changes at Milwaukee Public Schools

Alan Borsuk:

Alan Coulter says he'll miss Milwaukee.

"I have a deep affection for the city of Milwaukee that I did not have when this began," he said on the phone. "I talk up Milwaukee whenever I can."

And he talks up what is going on in Milwaukee Public Schools and the work of its leadership, starting with Superintendent Gregory Thornton.

The generally upbeat tone of Coulter in our conversation last week was not something I forecast at the beginning Coulter referred to - when the Louisiana State University professor arrived in 2009 as the "special expert" appointed by a federal judge to oversee implementation of major changes in Milwaukee Public Schools resulting from a lawsuit over special education that became known as the Jamie S. case.

The scope of the suit grew to cover a wide swatch of what MPS does. Coulter was in a position of such weight that I sometimes semi-jokingly referred to him as the shadow superintendent of MPS.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 13, 2012 1:43 AM
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