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Don't take a vacation from civic discussion!
Watch some of the season’s best on Milwaukee Public Television.
All rebroadcasts run Wednesday evenings at 11:30 PM, Channel 10.1.
Summer Rebroadcast Schedule
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: June 10
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?
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
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: June 17
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?
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
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: June 24
FORWARD TO BASICS:
Food, Farms, Our Future
Organic farming, sustainable agriculture, locally grown food.
Will Wisconsin embrace agriculture’s cutting edge to ensure food security
in the 21st Century?
Moderator: Denise Callaway, Director of Communications, Greater Milwaukee Foundation
WITH GUESTS
WILL ALLEN
Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Growing Power
www.growingpower.org
2008 MacArthur Foundation Fellow
DEIRDRE BIRMINGHAM
Owner, Wild Apple Acres
Co-founder, Upper Midwest Organic Tree Fruit Growers Network
www.mosesorganic.org
RONALD DOETCH
Executive Director
Michael Fields Agricultural Institute
www.michaelfieldsaginst.org
MICHELLE MILLER
Associate Director
Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems
UW-Madison
www.cias.wisc.edu
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: July 1
MPS: MONEY, CONTROL, AND KIDS TOO
A financial crisis. A possible takeover from the elected school board.
At stake, the future of 85,000 children. Does anyone know what to do?
MODERATOR
DENISE CALLAWAY
Director of Communications,
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org
WITH GUESTS
TOM BARRETT
Mayor of Milwaukee
www.ci.mil.wi.us
MICHAEL BONDS, PhD
Milwaukee Public School Board President
www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
Associate Professor of Education Policy
UW-Milwaukee, www.uwm.edu
ANNELIESE DICKMAN, JD
Research Director
Author, "SCHOOL DISTRICT GOVERNANCE REFORM: The Devil is in the Details"
Public Policy Forum
www.publicpolicyforum.org
DENNIS OULAHAN
President
Milwaukee Teachers Education Association
www.mtea.org
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: July 8
MAKING IT IN WISCONSIN:
MANUFACTURING OUR FUTURE
Throughout the 20th century, Wisconsin was an industrial power.
What’s required to make us innovative, efficient, and profitable in the 21st century?
MODERATOR
DENISE CALLAWAY
Director of Communications
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org
WITH GUESTS
MARY ISBISTER
President and Co-owner
General MetalWorks Corporation
www.genmet.com
RICHARD MEEUSEN
President and Chief Executive Officer
BADGER METER, Inc
www.badgermeter.com
MICHAEL TOWNSEND, PhD
Vice President
Milwaukee Area Technical College, Mequon Campus
www.matc.edu
CHARLENE YAUCH, PhD
Associate Professor
Industrial and Mechanical Engineering
Milwaukee School of Engineering
www.msoe.edu
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: July 15
SHOULD BUSINESS AND HEALTH
INSURANCE DIVORCE?
Companies struggle with high premiums or can no longer provide health insurance for their workers. Millions go without. Is there a bold 21st century solution to this national problem?
MODERATOR
ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center, UW-Milwaukee
www.uwm.edu
WITH GUESTS
WAYNE COREY
Executive Director
Wisconsin Independent Small Businesses
www.wibiz.org
SUSAN GIAIMO , PhD
Visiting Professor, Political Science Department and Author of Markets and Medicine:
The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States
Marquette University
www.marquette.edu
BILL JENKINS
President, Jenkins and Associates
Former President and CEO of Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Former CEO, Milwaukee County Medical Complex
JEFF STONE
Wisconsin State Representative, 82nd Assembly Distric
Committee on Health and Healthcare Reform
www.legis.wisconsin.gov
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: July 22
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?
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
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: July 29
COMBATING SCHOOL VIOLENCE
Some Milwaukee schools are using tools of maturity to help prevent and resolve conflicts.
The tools are restorative justice and conflict resolution.
Should everyone use them?
MODERATOR
DENISE CALLAWAY
Director of Communications
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
www.greatermilwaukeefoundation.org
WITH GUESTS
JANINE GESKE, JD
Director, Restorative Justice Project
Marquette Law School
www.law.marquette.edu/jw/restorative
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
WENDELL HARRIS, MS
Executive Director
Reuben Harris Institute for Family Enrichment
http://wendellharrisassociate.homestead.com
Founder, Ambassadors for Peace of MPS Transition High School and
Community High School
www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/transition
President, National Coalition of Black American Men
MORGAN PEETE
Student, Senior, MPS Transition High School
Ambassador for Peace and member of the Restorative Justice Program
www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/transition
MARVIN WILLIAMS
Social Studies Teacher, Restorative Justice Team Teacher with
Milwaukee County District Attorneys, David Lehrman and Paul Dedinsky
MPS Audubon Technology and Communications Center High School
www2.milwaukee.k12.wi.us/audubon
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: August 6
BABIES DYING:
WISCONSIN’S EPIDEMIC
Three African American babies die in Wisconsin for every white baby.
And Hispanic deaths are elevated too.
The latest statistics show we are improving, but what more can be done?
In collaboration with the Medical College of Wisconsin’s
Healthy Wisconsin Leadership Institute.
Moderator: DENISE CALLAWAY, Director of Communications,
Greater Milwaukee Foundation
WITH GUESTS
BEVAN BAKER
Health Commissioner
City of Milwaukee
www.milwaukee.gov/health
PATRICIA McMANUS, PhD
Executive Director
Black Health Coalition
www.bhcw.org
EMMANUEL NGUI, PhD
Assistant Professor
Center for the Advancement of Underserved Children,
Department of Pediatrics
Medical College of Wisconsin
www.mcw.edu
KAREN TIMBERLAKE
Secretary of the Department of Health Services
State of Wisconsin
dhs.wisconsin.gov
MPTV Rebroadcast Date: August 13
STIMULATING WISCONSIN’S
GREEN ECONOMY
Stimulus money is flowing. It could nurture green jobs, energy, and transit. But will bureaucratic inertia and a powerful status quo stifle Wisconsin’s green future?
MODERATOR
ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD,
Director, Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee
www.uwm.edu
WITH GUESTS
ANN BEIER
Director
City of Milwaukee Environmental Sustainability
www.ci.mil.wi.us/greenteam
CURTISS HARRIS
Executive Director
African American Chamber of Commerce
www.aaccmke.org
Business Consultant
MELISSA SCANLAN, JD
Founder and Senior Counsel
Author of "Blueprint for Wisconsin's Economy"
Midwest Environmental Advocates
www.midwestadvocates.org
NEAL VERFUERTH
President and CEO
Orion Energy Systems
www.oriones.com
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4th Street Forum 2009/2010 Season will begin September 17, 2009.
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