Posted on Thursday, 4th December 2008 by Patrick Dorwin
The Milwaukee Public Schools system spends $3,287,671.23 of your tax dollars every day, 365 days a year. What did they buy today?
- MPS has spent $54,438.86 at the CORK N CLEAVER restaurant for things like what the call “Data Retreats,” “Holistic Writing Scoring,” “Writing Assignment Food” and “Management Inservice” meetings.
Two of the entries were labeled “UNDERSTANDING POVERTY – SITE.” I wonder if the more than $6,500 they spent for these two events helped them understand poverty…
In conjunction with Citizens for Responsible Government and their Government Accountability in Spending Project (GASP), we will be posting one of the more dubious expenditures from the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) each day.
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December 4th, 2008 at 2:30 am
Cork N Cleaver is located in the Clarion Hotel by the airport. It is also a bar. I wonder if bar tabs and hotel room charges are being hidden here. Notice the word “retreat”.
December 4th, 2008 at 6:11 am
School Board Member Charlene Hardin catches a break from the Milw. DA’s office! Can’t this bimbo be recalled? Shouldn’t she be forced to reimburse the taxpayers for the taxpayer funded getaway with her secretary/girlfriend?? Check Dan Bice’s jsonline.com story regarding this travesty.
http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/35518859.html
December 4th, 2008 at 6:22 am
Another PC decision by the cheap dem hack John Chisholm. He’s got the stones of a stud chipmunk.
Hardin’s constituents will re-elect her just to stick it to whitey. They’d also re-elect Jr McGee if he wasn’t tossing salads in prison.
December 4th, 2008 at 8:19 am
UNBELIEVABLE!!! Suggestion for future meetings: Hold them in one of their fine school cafeterias with ‘Potluck’ as the theme – i.e. bring your own food to share such as a tuna casserole or ‘hamburger helper’. Of course, alcohol would be a no-no, so this might not seem like a good idea to these folks.
December 4th, 2008 at 8:31 am
Don’t worry, folkbum will explain to us how it’s impossible for MPS to use empty classrooms for “Holistic Writing Scoring” and “Management Inservice” because that’s just not done at private schools and it scares away Bill Gates. Pay more taxes! It’s for the
administratorschildren! Why do you hate theadministratorschildren!?!?!December 4th, 2008 at 9:33 am
“Intra-neighborhood Busing”?????
http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/35517494.html
When I was a child my “Intra-neighborhood” transportation needs were satisfied by moving my left foot and right foot rapidly in parallel to one another.
If that didn’t cut it I rode a bike. If a bike wasn’t feasible it was my parent’s problem. (I’m sure someone will decry how bikes are not an option as the students are too poor to own them – hey, another MPS program opportunity bikes equipped with IPODS for students)!
If it’s “intra-neighborhood” and safety is an issue why the children’s aren’t parents capable of walking them to school?
The insanity of hiring shuttle vans to compete with charter schools is patently ridiculous. It’s more of the same kind of thinking the GASP data base is revealing as commonplace throughout MPS.
Empty neighborhood schools not attended by neighborhood kids so we have to drive them from their doorstep to the school house next door – I’m nauseous.
On top of it it may require creation of yet another school! They say this all the while acknowledging they have more capacity than required and unused facilities!
Androkopolous is right doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definition of insanity.
Welcome to MPS latest specialty school – MPS Arkham Academy.
December 4th, 2008 at 11:53 am
While I was a teacher, we had inservice training where we went through the “Understanding Poverty” book by Ruby Payne. As someone who is normally against inservice trainings because they seemed like 12 helpful hints for being a better teacher that I could have read in a pamphlet, this book changed my life.
That aside, I think our 3 sessions with a speaker who presented was like $1000. That didn’t come with a meal, but some after-market hershey’s kisses were lavished upon us.
1) This is ridiculous.
2) Read the book. It will change your life.
December 4th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
This certainly sounds absurd.
Can’t they simply have a potluck for their meetings like most other places of business that have to make ends meet?
I guess not when the taxpayer is footing the bill.
I wonder though, over what period of time was the $54,438.86 spent?
December 4th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Can you imagine the manager of the Cork n Cleaver when MPS calls!! I’ll be he gets turgid.
$4536.57 @ month.
I wonder if Foltunes got any Cork or Cleavage.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Empty neighborhood schools not attended by neighborhood kids so we have to drive them from their doorstep to the school house next door
Where are the people who believe there’s a childhood obesity crisis and/or global warming is caused by cars? Shouldn’t they be all over stopping this?
December 6th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
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