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Northwestern Mutual Foundation funds study of arts education in region |
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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. |
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New direction: MPS superintendent moves to include business community |
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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.” |
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Sennett: MPS improvement vital to business community |
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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. |
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Business leaders still pushing for change |
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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.” |
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Milwaukee receives grant for creative economy research |
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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." |
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