Photo by Barb Miner
A broad based group of concerned Milwaukeans met yesterday at the Federal Building and US Courthouse on Wisconsin Ave expressing their outrage over the layoff of over 700 Milwaukee Public School educators. Hundreds of pairs of empty shoes covered the steps of Milwaukee's finest example of Richardsonian architecture as a symbol of the empty spaces in MPS in the coming years.
Speakers were encouraged to act on a national, state and local level to fight this short-sighted and not inevitable cut in funding for the children of Milwaukee.
How?
Nationally: call Senators Kohl and Feingold and demand they support the
Keep Our Educators Working Act which addresses the loss of over 300,000 educators across the nation during the latest financial crisis.
Statewide: support the A Penny for Kids" campaign supported by the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools.
Locally: call the Mayor, County Executive, School Board and any other local leader you can think of and tell them to fully fund education in Milwaukee.
Go here to find out who your representatives at all levels of government are.
More photos of the rally.
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