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August 18, 2023

City Forward Collective (CFC) helped knit together a grassroots network of more than 1,000 parents and school leaders tired of the inequity... CFC educated parents about the funding gap, its impact on school budgets, the state budget process, and how to advocate for the bill...The campaign worked. In fact, it’s a model for community organizing best practices.

Progressive Policy Institute / Read Full Article


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JULY 27, 2023

Harnessing the Power of Advocacy: A Catalyst for Change in Milwaukee’s Education Funding

CharterFolk / Read Full Article


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JULY 17, 2023

How Parent Power Won Increased Funding for Wisconsin Schools

The 74 / Read Full Article


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JULY 10, 2023

City Forward Collective Celebrates Progress in Equal and Increased Funding for Milwaukee’s K-12 Students

City Forward Collective / Read Full News Release


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April 6, 2023

Repeated calls for education, shared revenue in first state budget listening session

WUWM 89.7 Milwaukee’s NPR / Read Full Story


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April 5, 2023

City Forward Collective mobilizes more than 200 families in support of equal funding for all Milwaukee students’ education

City Forward Collective / Read Full Story


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April 5, 2023

Education, child care come up frequently in public's first chance to sound off on state budget

CBS 58 News / Read Full Story


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February 27, 2023

Reading school report cards for all they’re worth

BizTimes / Read Full Story

 

 

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February 23, 2023

How Milwaukee leaders are addressing the city’s educational challenges

Biz Times / Read Full Story

 

 

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February 20, 2023

What does success look like in Milwaukee’s schools?

BizTimes/ Read Full Story

 

 

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OCT. 24, 2022

One out of five children here in Milwaukee can read and do math at grade level. That means four out of five children are not at grade level.

TMJ4 Milwaukee / Read Full Story

 

 

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Aug. 11, 2022

We are proud of what we have achieved so far, and Brittany Kinser is the right leader to build on what we started.

City Forward Collective / Read Full Story

 

 

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OCT. 6, 2020

Having more teachers that look like and share lived experiences with our city’s young people will ensure that students leave their K-12 education empowered to make a choice in the direction of their lives.

City Forward Collective / Read Full Story

 

 

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Sept. 27, 2020

School leaders said they're grateful for a partnership with City Forward Collective. The group rallied resources, devices and hotspot capabilities.

FOX6 / Read Full Story

 

 

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Sept. 10, 2020

How we respond to these racial inequities needs to be front and center in how school leaders and educators serve students and families this year and beyond.

City Forward Collective / Read Full Story

 

 

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JULY 17, 2020

School closures this spring caused disproportionate harm to children of color and those from low-income households. That can’t happen again.

City Forward Collective / Read Full Story

 

 

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JULY 7, 2020

This is a large-scale effort to match the large-scale challenges of COVID-19

City Forward Collective / Read Full Story

 

 

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June 8, 2020

The organization … has spoken with hundreds of school leaders and teachers to identify their needs in order to provide quality distance learning.

Microsoft News / Read Full Story

 

 

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June 8, 2020

Schools can't start soon enough in getting ready to accommodate that new normal.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Read Full Story

 

 

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June 2, 2020

Our city and our country are bleeding from wounds first inflicted long ago. These wounds are reopened daily.

City Forward Collective / Read Full Statement

 

 

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June 2, 2020

Some of Milwaukee’s students lost a third of their school year this spring. If we don’t respond urgently, the children already the furthest behind will lose even more ground.

Shepherd-Express / Read Full Story

 

 

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June 2, 2020

Things probably won’t ever go back to normal, which could be a good thing because, according to Hoben, students have never been served as well as people have wanted them to.

Carvd N Stone / Read Full Story

 

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MAY 29, 2020

When schools closed this spring, students and families endured chaos and disrupted learning … That can’t happen again.

City Forward Collective / Read Full Story

 

 

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March 31, 2020

…schools must implement meaningful alternatives to in-person instruction now, or else deprive students of nearly 1/3 of their annual learning progress.

City Forward Collective / Read Full Story

 

 

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March 10, 2020

City Forward Collective was awarded a $500,000 grant from the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development for the recruitment, training and mentoring of 140 new teachers in the city.

BizTimes / Read Full Story

 

 

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July 28, 2019

Excellence isn’t enough, she argued; it needs to be excellence for all.

the 74 Million / Read Full Story

 

 

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June 29, 2019

Hoben stated that Black and brown teachers only make up 22 percent of Milwaukee County’s school teachers… ‘That number needs to go up substantially.’

Milwaukee Courier / Read Full Story

 

 

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June 29, 2019

…Hoben and others involved in the new group are people who don’t give up easily.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel / Read Full Story

 

 

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June 27, 2019

The City Forward Collective model has the potential to make significant, positive, lasting change for our city and its families.

BizTimes Milwaukee / Read Full Story

 

 

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June 27, 2019

Eliminating our city’s educational inequities will require all of us — all neighborhoods, all political ideologies, all school sectors — to work collectively.

City Forward Collective / Read Full Press Release

 

 

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June 27, 2019

Today in Milwaukee, far too many young people are locked out of opportunity — especially our youth of color. We need much more progress for our city, and we need it much faster than we’re currently getting it.

City Forward Collective / Read Community Quotes

 

 

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MARCH 15, 2018

This merger strengthens the impact of two already strong and complementary organizations. This is about building on the foundation of success and results that both organizations have achieved to become stronger together.

PAVE + STCM / Read Full Press Release