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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
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
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?
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?
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
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?
WITH GUESTS JANINE GESKE, JD
Director, Restorative Justice Project
Marquette Law School www.law.marquette.edu/jw/restorative
Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice
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
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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