Progress through partnership

Left to right: Keith P. Posley, superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools; Vicki Martin, president of Milwaukee Area Technical College; and Mark Mone, chancellor of UWM.
Left to right: Keith P. Posley, superintendent of Milwaukee Public Schools; Vicki Martin, president of Milwaukee Area Technical College; and Mark Mone, chancellor of UWM.

As a new school year begins, we have encouraging news about our shared work to transform Milwaukee through education.

Together, we have helped drive graduation rates higher in Milwaukee Public Schools, helped more seniors complete the FAFSA so they can pay for higher education and helped more MPS graduates enroll in a college or university immediately after graduation. Now, we are beginning to see the greater college-level success on which we have been focused. More MPS graduates are:

  • Successfully completing college-level math in their first year at MATC
  • Successfully completing college-level math and English in their first year at UWM
  • Continuing on to a second year at MATC or UWM

Our work must and will continue. As we have shared with you, we are framing for the next decade of this partnership with a focus on connecting learning from middle school through college, providing strong transitions from high school to college, and driving college success.

To continue to make progress amid the global COVID-19 pandemic and its resulting economic consequences, we are currently working to close the digital divide. More about these efforts is provided later in this newsletter.

Meeting the emergency needs of the more than 100,000 students we serve during COVID-19 was the focus of our first virtual event in a new series: M3 | Education Transformed.

Finally, we continue to grow our early college program, M3 College Connections, which will welcome more than 90 MPS seniors this year who will take college-level classes for credit at MATC and UWM.

At a time when so many challenges are present both globally and locally, we hope you share our pride in what MPS, MATC, and UWM students are accomplishing when we work together to help them succeed.

Respectfully,

Keith P. Posley, Ed.D., Superintendent, MPS

Vicki Martin, Ph.D., President, MATC

Mark A. Mone, Ph.D., Chancellor, UWM