State officials are admonishing Milwaukee Public Schools and threatening to suspend funding to the district after MPS officials have failed to provide key financial reports, some of which were due over eight months ago, according to a recent letter to MPS Superintendent Keith Posley released to the public Wednesday.
Following months of failures by MPS administrators to submit the required documents to the state Department of Public Instruction, Milwaukee School Board members are stepping in.
Jilly Gokalgandhi, vice president of the board, said board members are working with “subject matter experts” to chart a course forward, which could include adding staff, filling vacancies in the district’s finance department or bringing in outside help to produce the needed reports for state officials.