UW-Milwaukee: Educator discusses policy, poverty and reform failures Feb. 10 at UWM
Diane Ravitch, an outspoken critic of No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top and other test-driven government education reforms, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Urban Forum on Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. She will speak at 6:30 p.m. in the UWM Union Wisconsin Room, 2200 E. Kenwood Blvd. The event is free...
Shorewest, Realtors: Offers new and updated smartphone apps
Contact:
Wendy Norem
Marketing Director
Shorewest, Realtors®
(262) 827-4111, ext. 232
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Brookfield, Wisconsin. Do you have an Android or iPhone? If so, you are going to want to download Shorewest, Realtors® free application to help find your new home. Shorewest recently released the Android application and updated the iPhone application.
“As people are...
Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce: Brookfield chamber announces Jeanie Martin as new board chair
At the November Annual Meeting of the Greater Brookfield Chamber of Commerce, Jeanie Martin, President of Squeegee Squad, was named Board Chair of the Chamber’s Board of Directors. Martin also chairs the board’s Executive Committee. Martin succeeds Sally Piefer as Board Chair. Piefer of The Schroeder Group, S.C., Waukesha, remains on the Chamber’s board as its past Chair. ...
Gov. Walker: Statement on Illinois tax increase: “Wisconsin is open for business”
Contact: Cullen Werwie, 608-267-7303
Madison– Governor Scott Walker released the following statement on the Illinois legislature’s passage of massive tax increases:
“Wisconsin is open for business. In these challenging economic times while Illinois is raising taxes, we are lowering them. On my first day in office I called a special session of the legislature, not in order to raise...
