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Article: EUGENE KANE; IN MY OPINION Takeover talk may wake up folks
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2009
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Whoever came up with the idea of pushing a "takeover" of
Milwaukee Public Schools by the mayor of Milwaukee probably should
have figured out a better way to describe it.
Sometimes, it's all about the words.
Clearly, most of the people who attended a community rally at a
church on the north side of Milwaukee on Friday evening to protest
the proposed takeover of MPS didn't like the insinuation that the
state's largest district needed such a drastic change in the way it
was run that voters should no longer have a role in the process.
For many in the audience at Parklawn Assembly of God in the
Sherman Park neighborhood, this kind of "takeover" sounded ominous.
"They're treating you like ...