Colleston Morgan Jr

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Colleston Morgan Jr

@colleston

#girldad x2 w/@klozadamorgan, Exec Director @CityForwardCol, always a Civics teacher, Obamillenial, cheesehead who knows what it means. INTJ/P, heavy on the I.

Milwaukee, WI شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2009

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·9h

This is the way — not lowering standards, defending an inexcusable status quo, and certainly not excluding more than 150,000 publicly funded students across Wisconsin, including 48% of MKE kids + special ed students in rural districts, from proposed investments in K12 schools.

Jill Barshay@jillbarshay

Spoke with @arneduncan at @aefpweb in Chicago last week on how Democrats lost parents when it comes to education. His take: Covid closures + no clear vision = opening for GOP to tap into fears. His Rx: stand for academic excellence + accountability in school choice.

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·9h

Blind ideology + policymaking to appease special interest groups is what’s gotten Dems upside down with voters — and cost the party trust with voters on education issues. We need real solutions — accountability, fair funding, and a focus on student achievement — not soundbites.

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·9h

The current “leader” in the @wisdems Gov primary, @FrancescaHongWI, is the lead sponsor of a @WIAssemblyDems bill that leaves 1 in 5 WI students — incl 48% of MKE’s kids — out from K12 funding increases. “Defund MKE kids” is bad policy & a bad platform. open.substack.com/pub/mkeedunews…

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·14h

The serious policy conversations Wisconsin needs to have – how to improve stagnant student achievement statewide, how to address the crisis on Milwaukee’s North Side and eliminate the state’s Black-White performance disparities, how to actually fix our state’s broken school funding system – deserve serious policymakers, not ideologically-driven talking points being written into state statutes.

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·14h

“This year, CFC’s District Profiles show seven separate Democratic legislators represent districts, anchored in the city of Milwaukee, in which 48% or more of students are enrolled in schools that would be excluded from AB 1176”

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·14h

In today’s @cfc_mke Corner, I shared more on why the @WIAssemblyDems recent school funding proposal is anything but responsible — and why legislating by special interest slogans is a mistake. “Defund half of MKE’s kids” is bad policy & politics. open.substack.com/pub/mkeedunews…

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·18h

This is the way 👇🏿

Jill Barshay@jillbarshay

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Dale Chu@Dale_Chu·1d

“The number one thing that I wish people understood about K-12 education in the United States is that while the N.C.L.B. regime was in place, our schools got better.”

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·1d

Useful data, but a cautionary flag that because of @EdNCES data lags, these are 2023 numbers — meaning they don’t reflect @milwaukeemps’ subsequent 2nd referendum and 30% property tax hike. Which makes MPS being in the 89th percentile of mid-large districts even more notable…

Quinton Klabon@GhaleonQ

🚨NEW 2023 NATIONAL SCHOOL SPENDING DATA🚨 🎉🥳🎉 523 districts over 15,000 students Wisconsin rank/percentile: Racine: 25th/95th Milwaukee: 56th/89th Madison: 58th/89th Green Bay: 62nd/88th Kenosha: 154th/70th Appleton: 178th/66th (pictured: top 50 districts over 25,000 kids)

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·1d

Here’s more of our take on what’s needed, from my regular segment on @620wtmj with @KristinBrey and @StephenScaffid1

620 WTMJ@620wtmj

“This funding system is broken.” @colleston of City Forward Collective old @StephenScaffid1 and @KristinBrey what lawmakers need to fix in Wisconsin education. Hear more on Point Taken!

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·1d

Pretty good primer on school funding from @MollyBeck in today’s JS, but would add: 1) voter backlash to property taxes is at least partially tied to statewide student performance stagnating — & continuing to crater in MKE and at @milwaukeemps during this time period

Journal Sentinel@journalsentinel

Voters more concerned with property taxes than school funding, poll shows jsonline.com/story/news/pol…

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·1d

WI’s school funding system is broken. It was built 30 years ago to fund districts & hold down property taxes — it’s now failing at both jobs. As demographics shift, a system only built to get bigger is ill-equipped for enrollment declines & parental choice. We need new tools.

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·1d

2) Dan walks up to the critical driver here — declining enrollment — but doesn’t address districts’ failure to rightsize in response to them. We @cfc_mke have pointed out the most egregious issues at MPS — 30% fewer kids, yet no action at all — but it’s a broader challenge.

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Matthew Yglesias@mattyglesias·1d

A wide range of stakeholders found the No Child Left Behind era accountability measures annoying, but results continually got better for students at all levels while they were in place and things have gotten worse since they went away. slowboring.com/p/ed-tech-is-n…

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·2d

Wisconsin’s students & schools need a better approach — one that fairly funds all our students, rather than prioritizing systems & the status quo. More on our take @cfc_mke from my recent segment on @620wtmj:

620 WTMJ@620wtmj

“This funding system is broken.” @colleston of City Forward Collective old @StephenScaffid1 and @KristinBrey what lawmakers need to fix in Wisconsin education. Hear more on Point Taken!

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Colleston Morgan Jr@colleston·2d

Among the broken parts of WI’s byzantine school funding system, the school levy tax credit is an area of cross-partisan disdain. Public school advocates dislike that it’s not “spendable”. Fiscal conservatives dislike how it incents districts to spend more. They’re both right!

Patrick McIlheran@PaddyMacMke

Wisconsin's school levy tax credit is supposed to soften the blow of school spending. But it rewards school districts that increase spending faster than average -- at the expense of taxpayers in districts that restrain their spending. Oops. badgerinstitute.org/school-levy-ta…

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