Whether you support a potential $65 million bond issue to pay for facilities improvements in our school district or not, I hope you will base your support on...

Three of our five school board members are professors, so if there is one way to reach them, it is with an academic study of something. Months ago, the board...

Tonight's school board meeting will include a review of survey responses from the community gauging our tolerance for borrowing and spending tens of millions...

There's a phrase that people use now, sometimes jokingly: "all the feels," that describes Shorewood right now. All of us watching or participating in the con...

The last few days of "To Kill a Mockingbird" controversy in Shorewood have swirled to the surface a lot of resentments, assumptions, prejudices and hurt -- f...

I'm lucky, I guess, to have a blank page here to draft my thoughts about the district cancelling its production of "To Kill a Mockingbird." I have more than ...

I mentioned in my preview of this week's school board meeting that our board was taking up some of the most substantive questions and issues it handles, and ...

Every parent I know has a certain thing about their kid's school that they are passionate about. One dad may not think school lunches are a big deal, but the...

There were a good two dozen people in attendance at Tuesday's annual meeting, present to listen to the highlights of the school district's budget, and to vot...

There were a good two dozen people in attendance at Tuesday's annual meeting, present to listen to the highlights of the school district's budget, and to vot...

Once a year, the school district is required to call a meeting for village residents to consider and (usually) approve a tax levy to support the district for...

UPDATE/POSTSCRIPT: The special Friday the 13th meeting resulted in a reversal - the wall has indeed been knocked down. Lots of wasted time and stress that wa...

Tuesday's regular meeting was much shorter than usual and was missing two board members, but the remaining three voted on significant plans for the next scho...

This week's school board meeting should be a revealing and busy one, as the board takes up topics that should be of keen interest to everyone with kids in ou...

If you knew that the school district had a dozen work groups meeting regularly to discuss specific issues and advise school district leadership, you were ahe...

The school board hosted their final linkage of the year Tuesday night, welcoming anyone and everyone for a Town Hall immediately before their regular meeting...

Readers, our district superintendent Bryan Davis emailed me earlier today taking issue with the way I framed my recent post on transfers out of our high scho...

A few months ago, I started hearing talk of several African-American students leaving our high school and transferring to other nearby schools, including man...

[Important edits made to this post Tuesday, March 13 regarding the data cited here] Spend a lot of time in any of our schools, and despite their historic bea...