Thornton: More follow through needed on Milwaukee Public School reforms

Steve Schultze:

Plenty of talk, not enough action.

That was the blunt message Wednesday from Milwaukee Public Schools Superintendent Gregory Thornton, at a forum on how to fix what ails MPS, local government and the city as a whole in an era of declining public resources.

He said while rhetoric about change has been good, with a series of reforms laid out over the years, the focus and follow through have been lacking.

"We have an 'execution gap,' " Thornton said at the forum on Milwaukee's future with top city, civic and business leaders at Marquette University. "The problem is, we are not playing very well together."

He said greater effort at partnerships was needed and that the foundation for some solutions was already in place. MPS has vast libraries that might be put to greater use by the community, for example, he said.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 19, 2011 1:15 AM
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