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

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

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 ever...

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

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

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

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

Our district leadership has decided to create two new positions -- one at each of our elementary schools -- whose jobs will come with wei...

Note: you can watch the video of Tuesday's regular meeting here. This week's school board meeting was full of news, including a preview o...

[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 despit...

Let's get this out of the way: I'm one of those Moms Demanding Action. I haven't volunteered with them in a long time because I decided t...

This archived post appeared on my original blog site Feb. 25, 2017 (Update added May 9, 2018: Our most recent ranking is #30) Shorewood h...

I understand that only two of you -- specifically, our board president and our superintendent, are really supposed to speak for you all i...

It was a mercifully shorter meeting tonight for the School board compared to the last one, and not action-packed, but still included a few...

There are a lot of big, important conversations about big important topics going on in our school district lately, but I want to make sur...

Three hours in to tonight's school board meeting, just after 10 p.m., I realized that I was so tired and mentally spent, that I wasn't su...

A Shorewood High School student has died by his own hand. His name was William Pemberton. His mother has asked for help paying for memori...