notes on staffing and the taxpayer funded Milwaukee schools
While a referendum approved by voters last year helped the district close budget gaps and extend cost-of-living raises to staff, MPS still made cuts, citing inflation and the end of federal pandemic relief funds.
Staff have said these cuts, including the loss of over 100 teacher coaches, left a harder workload for those remaining. Teachers have struggled with large case loads and class sizes. About one in five first-grade classrooms at MPS has more than 28 students, the maximum allowed under a school board resolution, a Journal Sentinel analysis of MPS data found.
