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Northwestern Mutual Foundation funds study of arts education in region

From BizTimes.com
Posted: August 20, 2010

The Northwestern Mutual Foundation is providing $30,000 for a study to explore arts education in the Milwaukee 7 (M7) region.
The study, directed by the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee, will explore the extent and type of support for arts education within the K-12 public school system.

The study continues exploration into the M7 creative economy as the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee also has partnered with the Greater Milwaukee Committee for the Creativity Works Initiative launched in 2009.

New direction: MPS superintendent moves to include business community

From the Business Journal
Posted: August 27, 2010

In January, days after Gregory Thornton was hired to take over as Milwaukee Public Schools superintendent, he said working with the business community would be a vital part of his success with the school district.

At the time, many Milwaukee-area business leaders were skeptical given the circumstances surrounding Thornton’s hire — the MPS board called a special meeting on a Friday night to hire Thornton, essentially ending a push by the business community to hand over control of the struggling school district to the mayor of Milwaukee.

Now, one month into Thornton’s tenure as MPS superintendent, business leaders are beginning to believe his pledge to work with them.

“He gets it and gets how to work with business,” said Julia Taylor, president of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. “I think he significantly understands the role that the business community can play, not just fiscally, but in other ways of driving change and the agenda forward.”

Sennett: MPS improvement vital to business community

From the Business Journal
Posted: August 6, 2010

Nancy Sennett’s lifelong interest in education has not wavered, despite her career evolving from high school English teacher to managing partner of Milwaukee law firm Foley & Lardner LLP.

Now Sennett will now return to her education roots after being tapped in February by Greater Milwaukee Committee chairman Michael Grebe to co-chair the GMC’s education subcommittee, along with The Business Journal publisher Mark Sabljak.
Education has been an area the GMC has focused on since 2003 and the business organization was a vocal proponent of mayoral control of Milwaukee Public Schools in 2009, an idea that died when the MPS board in January named Gregory Thornton the district’s new superintendent.

Now the GMC is focused on building a strong relationship with Thornton and increasing the number of college graduates in the Milwaukee area. Sennett is excited to lead that charge.

Business leaders still pushing for change

From the Business Journal
Posted: August 13, 2010

Milwaukee-area business leaders are confident the possibility for a change in governance at Milwaukee Public Schools still exists and a bill could be reintroduced when the state Legislature reconvenes in early 2011.

“While a mayoral form of governance is apparently off the table right now, as an organization, the possibility for a potential in a change of governance is still there,” said Michael Grebe, chairman of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. “We’re more than happy to pursue that, along with other partners in the community.”

Milwaukee receives grant for creative economy research

From BizTimes.com
Posted: July 26, 2010

The Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee has received a $50,000 matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to fund its Creativity Works! research and strategic planning effort.

The grant is part of the organization’s Mayors’ Institute on City Design 25th Anniversary Initiative. The 21 grants awarded across the country total $3 million. The NEA received approximately 200 submissions from organizations interested in participating in the national grant program.

"We’re honored to have the Creativity Works! project selected for this national recognition from such a vast pool of worthwhile initiatives," said Jill Morin, of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. "The grant is instrumental to our continued effort to define and strengthen our creative economy, and allow us to compete more effectively on a regional and national scale."

Business leaders working on college graduation initiative

From the Business Journal
Posted: July 9, 2010

Milwaukee-area business leaders are attempting to increase the number of college graduates by more than 13,000 people and infuse $1.5 billion annually into the area economy.

Milwaukee is one of 13 cities participating in the Talent Dividend Initiative, a three-year national effort to grow economic development through an increase in college graduates.

The goal is to raise the number of college graduates 1 percentage point by 2012, or by 13,146 students.

“We think this is a very doable objective,” said Eileen Schwalbach, president of Mount Mary College in Milwaukee, who co-chairs the Talent Dividend Initiative through the Greater Milwaukee Committee. “One percent doesn’t sound like a lot, but when you say it translates to $1.5 billion, that’s pretty impressive.”

Cleveland's jobs commitment is an enviable model

From the Journal Sentinel
Posted: June 20, 2010

Two Great Lakes states face similar concerns

Ray Leach is an Ohio boy who started and sold four information technology companies, earned a master's in business administration at MIT, and then left a teaching gig there to return to Cleveland, where he characterized the economy as "scorched earth."

His assignment, he said, was to reinvent the economy of Cleveland, which had lost 150,000 jobs in two decades and the headquarters of 15 Fortune 500 companies.

Knowing that almost all new jobs are created by young companies and that northeastern Ohio desperately needed more jobs, he set out to create an entrepreneurial ecosystem, a rich soil that would be hospitable to new ventures.

Does Milwaukee have enough college graduates to thrive?

From the Journal Sentinel
Posted: June 14, 2010

A gap is opening across America.

The smartest cities are getting smarter. Cities like Milwaukee are being left behind.

Better-educated places enjoy higher income, less crime and enhanced levels of civic participation, economic research has found.

And the benefits don't go just to the well-educated. When the percentage of college-educated workers in an area rises, so do the wages of workers generally - even high school dropouts, researchers have found.

At a time when knowledge is the critical force driving economic prosperity, Milwaukee faces an increasing disadvantage. Person for person, the city's pool of college-educated adults ranks among the very lowest of the country's 50 biggest cities, a Journal Sentinel analysis shows. Milwaukee County fares only a little better.

Rail ideas await their fate in Milwaukee

From the Journal Sentinel
Posted: May 30, 2010

Three stalled plans for Wisconsin train travel get reanalyzed in the election year

Railroads and politics have one thing in common: They're all about the timing.

Trains run by schedules. Politicians wait for the right moment to make their moves.

And timing is everything for rail transportation in southern Wisconsin, where political circumstances have brought three different rail transit plans to the forefront simultaneously - only to thrust them into an election-year controversy where some plans may not survive.

After years of study and debate, the state has landed an $810 million federal grant to build a high-speed train line from Milwaukee to Madison. At the same time, Milwaukee-area authorities are seeking federal permission to start preliminary engineering on a $283.5 million commuter rail line from Milwaukee to Kenosha and a $95.8 million modern streetcar line in downtown Milwaukee, two other long-discussed ideas.

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