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Teachers, parents and union demand guaranteed extracurricular funding across MPS
Summary
Dozens of teachers, union leaders and parents urged the Milwaukee Board of School Directors to restore and guarantee a full slate of extracurricular activities for all high schools and traditional middle schools, saying a centralized approach and past cuts have left many students without access.
Union leaders, coaches and classroom teachers told the committee the FY26 proposal does not include a districtwide guarantee for extracurricular activities that they said was previously promised. Ingrid Walker Henry, president of the Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association (MTEA), told the committee MTEA and the district had reached an agreement in a prior meet-and-confer that would restore extracurriculars; she said the current administration "will not include any budget toward extracurricular programming in her 20 25, 'twenty 6 budget."
"All of our students in public schools deserve equitable access to extracurricular activities that enrich their…
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