Our gentle suggestions for your morning reading:
- The state’s Department of Public Instruction has released its annual report cards that provide data on student achievement, post-secondary readiness and other measures of success. Across the state, many districts scored well. Milwaukee Public Schools’ performance, however, was another story.
- According to The New York Times, President Obama will announce today that the U.S. will send 3,000 troops to West Africa to help quell the Ebola outbreak.
- Milwaukee Record rounds up 10 “infamous” local concerts.
- Gov. Walker said his proposal to require drug testing for those seeking unemployment assistance is an act of “compassion.” The proposal, he said, is about “helping to get people into the workforce.”
- The Hill says that the recently troubled NFL has hired lobbyist Cynthia Hogan, who helped pen the Violence Against Women Act.
