Article: MPS Teacher discipline reforms languish Little headway so far in promised effort for tougher measures

Efforts to reform teacher discipline at Milwaukee Public Schools are on the slow track, despite a promised push on the issue last fall.

MPS has not yet proposed any legislative changes on teacher discipline; a peer evaluation idea remains bogged in contract negotiations; and the administration has sent mixed signals on disciplining teachers.

MPS officials and some community reform advocates said MPS' commitment to pursuing discipline reforms was genuine. But the issue has taken second place to the battles over reorganizing failing schools and attempts to establish charter schools free of many union and state constraints.

It may be another year before MPS officials attempt to enact some ...

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