Students bus to other neighborhood schools As a Milwaukee Public Schools teacher, I found the articles about MPS's push to entice children to attend their neighborhood schools disheartening and puzzling. I couldn't figure out how children in the Auer Avenue School attendance area were able to enroll in schools all over the city, from the far north to the far south sides. Our school cannot enroll children out of our busing zone unless parents provide transportation. Some of these children live less than two miles from our school.
A good decision I was very pleased to see that the Milwaukee School Board has decided to discontinue busing and to return to the neighborhood schools concept. Parents of Milwaukee Public Schools students must hold the board accountable to ensure that every school meets the slogan posted on schools in the district: "High Standards Start Here." Basic skills in reading, writing and arithmetic must be strongly emphasized, particularly in grades one through five.
COPLEY, Ohio - A northeast Ohio man ran through his small town neighborhood Sunday killing seven people, including his girlfriend, before he was shot and killed in an exchange of gunfire with police, authorities said. Witnesses told reporters at least one of the victims was a child.
Neighbors in the Wesson Heights subdivision of Olive Branch participated in National Night Out for the first time this year. But the group added their own twist by hosting their block party on the morning of Aug. 2, complete with a parade and an ice cream social. Mayor Sam Rikard and Police Chief Don Gammage attended the event and participated in the parade. The officials rode in a convertible to lead the neighborhood's parade.
PASADENA - An elderly woman was awakened by a masked intruder in the Greenhaven neighborhood early Sunday morning, county police said. The 88-year-old woman was asleep at her home in the 7700 block of Catherine Avenue when a masked person placed a hand over her mouth shortly after 1 a.m., police said.
Easter egg hunts and peaceful family gatherings were interrupted in a Van Nuys neighborhood Sunday after a gunman fired a semiautomatic rifle at an LAPD helicopter, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing and prompting a day-long evacuation and manhunt for a second suspect. In the end, only one suspect was taken into custody as police called off their search for a second gunman in the afternoon.
The Bridge Road Neighborhood Association will hold its spring fundraiser on Sunday at the Myrtle Road office of Farmer, Cline & Campbell PLLC from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. In 2006, the association gained nonprofit status to address the needs for parking, landscaping, improved pedestrian access and lighting and public safety in the neighborhood. So far, $14,000 has been donated to develop a master plan to build new sidewalks and add lighting, green space and parking.
SALT LAKE CITY -- Tim DeChristopher doesn't really like attention. But he is bound to get it with all the hammering going on in this quiet Sugar House neighborhood on a Sunday afternoon. It is a warm day in October, and DeChristopher and a few friends are outside on his driveway, getting ready for a climate change protest they'll host downtown in just a few weeks. They've got a mascot from a previous protest -- a white unicorn with a sparkly pink mane and the words "clean coal" painted on its ribs -- posted at the end of the pavement, and it's drawing curious glances from the neighbors as they walk home from church.
TRIPOLI, Libya - Libya's government said NATO warplanes struck a residential neighborhood in the capital Sunday and killed nine civilians, including two children. Hours later, NATO confirmed one of its airstrikes went astray. The incident gave supporters of Moammar Gadhafi's regime a new rallying point against the international intervention in Libya's civil war. The foreign minister called for a "global jihad" on the West in response.
NEW YORK - Dozens of residents marched through a Brooklyn neighborhood on Sunday to protest against vandals who torched three cars and scrawled Nazi swastikas in an area populated by Orthodox Jews. Protesters said they were stunned after unknown vandals set the cars ablaze, spray-painted the letters "KKK" on a van, defaced four public benches with 16 swastikas and left other anti-Semitic messages on a sidewalk in the Midwood neighborhood before dawn on Friday. Police have made no arrests.
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