Wausau Current is a column by Service Journalism Reporter Erik Pfantz that covers city and county governments and local ...

T hough more than 1,000 Milwaukee children are poisoned by lead each year, this spring marks the first time city officials have connected cases of childhood lead poisoning to Milwaukee Public Schools.

Milwaukee Public Schools is closing Brown Street Academy and Westside Academy because of lead dangers. "That's concerning for ...

MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee Public Schools on Monday, April 28 released its lead action plan as it deals with an ongoing lead ...

The painters lost a fair number of positions then, and over the years, they lost more, to the point where a recent Milwaukee ...

I was at a public hearing on a Milwaukee Public Schools proposed budget about 20 years ago where the hot subject was whether to reduce the number of painters who were employed by MPS. There were ...

Administrators for Milwaukee Public Schools are set to discuss their plan to solve the lead crisis in their buildings. It comes as MPS announced it will close two more schools in May as the ...

In February, Milwaukee Public Schools announced that Brenda Cassellius, the former superintendent of Boston Public Schools, would be the next superintendent for MPS. Cassellius quickly stepped up ...

Milwaukee will temporarily close two more school buildings as the city works to address a lead crisis in its public schools. The district also announced Monday an updated plan to tackle the ...

Some children were exposed to lead and investigators found flaking paint inside aging schools. Two federal experts, expected ...