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...community meeting” dedicated solely to discussing the results. School committee member Nancy Walser said that the district would discuss the report at this year’s three newly planned community-wide forums on the achievement gap. Despite cited weaknesses in measurement, Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 said the district has progressed in its reporting of student performance in schools. “There was a time when the school committee got no data like this,” he said. —Staff writer Laura A. Moore can be reached at lamoore@fas.harvard.edu
...Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves ’72 supported the idea, but was skeptical that it would come to fruition...
...concept of being concerned about locally owned business started with Frank Kramer and myself working with Michael Sullivan when he was mayor,” Shapiro says...
...million in 2002 to zero last year. That has left more than 200 police vacancies out of a force less than 2,000 strong. The city is hard pressed to fill the gap, since the police budget eats up nearly the entire Milwaukee tax levy of $213 million. Mayor Tom Barrett is hoping that the feds will start pitching in again. "We've spent five years on homeland security," Barrett says. "Now we need to focus on a little hometown security...
Barrett's administration has tried to address unemployment through a huge investment in real estate development and tax incentives to attract business. The mayor says those efforts have created more than 10,000 local jobs. Most of them, however, are either high-tech positions beyond the skills of many Milwaukee residents or low-wage service slots in retail shops and chain restaurants that pay less than needed to support a family...