Several Milwaukee School Board members bristled at not receiving or being briefed in advance on a consultants’ report that claims the city’s public schools could be saving more than $100 million per year if its bureaucracy was run more efficiently.
Some said they had already pushed for reform on many of the reported problem spots: streamlining purchasing, selling unused land and curtailing large salaries.
Outside the system, many wanted to know what makes this report – another in a long line of analyses that paint a dismal picture of MPS – different from the others. What, if anything, will be done about the wasteful spending practices the report outlines? And how soon?
Tim Sheehy, president of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Association of Commerce, called the report “eye-popping, but not unexpected.”