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4th Street Forum
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THURSDAYS, NOON
Join the audience at Historic Milwaukee Turner Hall.
(4th and Highland, across from the Bradley Center. Elevator access off the parking lot.)
Ask questions of the panelists!
www.4thStreetForum.org 414-272-2833
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Fridays, Channel 10.1 at 10pm & Sundays, Channel 36.1 at 3pm
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February 2009 Schedule
TOUGH TIMES / BOLD SOLUTIONS
Seven-Week Series Continues
Part 3 – HOPE FOR URBAN EDUCATION
There’s no shortage of ideas about how to improve urban schools.
But what works and who can make it happen?
Forum Date: February 5, NOON
MPTV Broadcast Dates: February 6 and 8
MODERATOR: JACK MURTAUGH, Co-chair,
4th Street Forum Executive Committee
WITH GUESTS
MIKE D’AMATO
Director
Wisconsin SEED Foundation
www.seedfoundation.com
Former District 3 Milwaukee Alderman
JEANETTE MITCHELL, PhD
Executive Director
The Leadership Center, Cardinal Stritch University
www.stritch.edu
former Milwaukee Public School Board President
RITA TENORIO
Principal, Fratney Elementary School
www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Editor, Rethinking Schools
www.rethinkingschools.org
Former MPS teacher
POLLY WILLIAMS
Wisconsin State Representative, District 10
www.legis.state.wi.us
Committee Chair for Education Reform
Part 4 – MILWAUKEE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: DOLLARS AND RESULTS
Does an MPS audit show the way to better education? What needs to change?
What changes can be made at MPS where Tough Times require Bold Solutions?
Forum Date: February 12, NOON
MPTV Broadcast Dates: February 13 and 15
MODERATOR: DENISE CALLAWAY, Director of Communications,
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
WITH GUESTS
WILLIAM ANDREKOPOULOS
Superintendent
Milwaukee Public Schools
www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
TOM BARRETT
Mayor of Milwaukee
www.ci.mil.wi.us
BARBARA HORTON
Executive Director
Darrell Lynn Hines Academy
www.christianfaith.org/dlha.php
Former Milwaukee Public School Board Member
TOM MORGAN
Executive Director
Milwaukee Teachers' Education Association (MTEA)
www.mtea.org
Part 5 – ENLIGHTENED PARENTS, SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN
Evidence mounts that quality parenting helps children succeed.
Should society help parents learn how to raise their children?
Forum Date: February 17, TUESDAY, NOON
MPTV Broadcast Dates: February 20 and 22
MODERATOR: ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD, Director,
Roberto Hernández Center, UW-Milwaukee
WITH GUESTS
TONY BAEZ, PhD
President and CEO
Council for the Spanish Speaking, Inc
www.councilforthespanishspeakingmilw.org
AMALIA SCHOONE
Milwaukee Public School Parent and School Volunteer
Business Owner
In Progress Consulting
WENDY VOLZ DANIELS, MSW, LCSW
Clinical Professor
Department of Social Work Field Program
UW-Milwaukee
www.uwm.edu
MAC WEDDLE
Director
Northcott Neighborhood House of Milwaukee
www.northcotthouse.org
Part 6 - Work for Minority Men
As many as half of Milwaukee’s minority men have no work.
The results? Struggling families, crime and despair.
In these tough times are there bold solutions for men without jobs?
Forum Date: February 26, NOON
MPTV Broadcast Dates: February 27 and March 1
MODERATOR: ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD, Director,
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee
WITH GUESTS
CARLA CROSS
President
Cross Management and Development
www.cross-management.com
WILLIE HINES
Alderman and Common Council President
City of Milwaukee
www.ci.mil.wi.us
MARC LEVINE, PhD
Director, Center for Economic Development
UW-Milwaukee
www.uwm.edu/Dept/CED
TONY PEREZ
Secretary-Executive Director
Housing Authority of the City of Milwaukee
www.hacm.org
Questions?
Deidre A. Martin
Director
4th Street Forum
414-272-2833
4thStreetForum@gmail.com
www.4thStreetForum.org
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