Wisconsin Education News

July 16, 2026

A daily update of education news and events that are taking place around Wisconsin.

Is Your School’s PLC Fueling Student Growth?
The Leading Professional Learning Communities academy will help you build or advance collaborative learning teams in your school or district.   Equip yourself, or better yet, a team, to sustain a professional learning community that ensures high levels of student learning and engagement.  The academy is designed to help you through unique challenges and will target areas such as leadership, assessment, collaboration and more. Specific areas that will also be addressed in the academy include growing team capacity to have hard conversations, analyzing student work, and protocols for addressing improvement areas identified and informed by data. 

Southern Door School District says most funds recovered after scam
The Southern Door County School District says it has recovered most of the money lost in a phishing scam that affected the district in November 2025.

Updated Ships Logo Picked For Manitowoc Public School District
As the Manitowoc Public School District transitions to a Ships mascot districtwide, the current logo has been updated.

Verona Lions partners with VASD to provide supplies for students in need
Ahead of the new school year, the Verona Lions Club is teaming up with social workers in the Verona Area School District for a donation drive to “Stuff the Bus” with school supplies for children in need. 

MPS students repair bikes for free through WI Bike Federation program
On a typical summer day, Tanysia Kelley pedals a cargo bike loaded with tools and supplies to parks and libraries across Milwaukee.

How one Wisconsin program turns high school students into the skilled workers businesses need
A Wisconsin nonprofit is bridging the gap between high school education and the workforce, giving students hands-on career experience while helping employers develop their next generation of workers.