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Amos, et al. v. Board of School Directors of the City of Milwaukee (1965) was the beginning in Wisconsin. National policy came in 1971 in Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education which relied on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The federal answer was court-ordered busing.
Phillips first proposed an ordinance in 1962 to outlaw housing discrimination. In 1968 the Milwaukee Common Council approved a desegregation law, only after a federal housing law was passed. She was arrested at a rally following the firebombing of an NAACP office, the only city official to be arrested during the "long hot summer" of 1967 ...
Governor Bobby Jindal has signaled an intention to end Common Core in the state, directing the Board of Education and the legislature to come up with an alternative that includes "Louisiana standards and a Louisiana test." [49] Bobby Jindal curricular changes include rejection of the Common Core education standards for teaching English and math ...
(The Center Square) – Milwaukee’s County Board of Supervisors has unanimously voted to adopt fiscal amendments to the budget that will increase funding for community service programs and ...
Sequanna Taylor (born July 1979) is an American educator, community organizer, and Democratic politician from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.She is a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly, representing Wisconsin's 11th Assembly district since 2025.
The amended budget secures funding for the Domes, free legal aid and other upstream services.
Nikiya Q. Dodd, formerly Nikiya Harris (born February 22, 1975) is a Wisconsin educator and politician who formerly served as a county supervisor of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin from 2010 through 2012, and as a Democratic member of the Wisconsin State Senate representing the 6th Senate district from 2013 to 2017.
The federal agency estimated Milwaukee's population in July 2022 to be about 563,000 people. Today, two council members are part of the city's fast-growing Latino community , Pérez and Ald ...