Posted on Tuesday, 16th 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 Taxpayers have donated $133,347.28 to The United Performing Arts Fund (UPAF). Now I agree that UPAF is a beneficial organization to have in our community… But why are our property tax dollars [...]
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Posted on Saturday, 13th 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 $2,659 advertising itself in Queer Life News. Queer Life News is apparently a defunct news paper based in Milwaukee that was aimed at the local LGBT community. We have noted [...]
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Posted on Friday, 12th 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 paid Yogafit $13,257 for yoga mats and training DVD’s In conjunction with Citizens for Responsible Government and their Government Accountability in Spending Project (GASP), we will be posting one of the [...]
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Posted on Thursday, 11th 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 $1,621,525.37 with the Florida based Intelistaff for temporary staffing needs. $1.6 million Milwaukee tax dollars to a Florida based company, but they haven’t spend a dime with the Milwaukee based [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 10th 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? Pierce Elementary School has spent $5,000 with the Wild Space Dance Company for an “after school wellness” program. But they are cut to the bone, that’s why they have needed this 34% tax [...]
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Posted on Monday, 8th 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? Trowbridge Elementary School paid long time community leader, Una Van Duval $999.99 for a Jazz Performance I’m sure there was great educational value… Sure, there must have been, right? In conjunction with Citizens [...]
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Posted on Sunday, 7th 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 schools have spent $126,482.60 at the Oriental Trading Company. Some of the items they purchased (a random search of the 2,000 orders): Mardi Gras Beads, ROCK-SHAPED BALLS, Foam Snowman Doorknob Hanger, RACE [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted on Wednesday, 3rd 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 teachers don’t sing well enough, so in 2006, we paid $8,604.50 to Byron Jones for consulting, voice lessons & vocal coaching. I believe this is the same Byron Jones that was a [...]
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Posted on Tuesday, 2nd 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? Why does Lady Pitts school need, not one, but two $2,299.99 Spirit XT-675 Light Commercial Treadmill’s? ($4,599.98 total) Lady Pitts is a specialty school for pregnant students in MPS, this school of around [...]
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