Milwaukee Nonprofit Helps Young People Learn Civic Skills and Speak Up
In short
- Leaders Igniting Transformation, founded in 2017, runs chapters, fellowships and citywide meetings for young people in Milwaukee.
- More than four hundred high school and college students took part this year, per co-executive director Kahina Cargile.
- Wisconsin does not require civics instruction in schools, and the group says it is filling that gap.
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Wisconsin does not require civics teaching, so local groups are filling the gap. The organisation teaches students to read bills, write and speak in public. Students are now working on how school resource officers are used in Milwaukee Public Schools.
From The Fulcrum
MILWAUKEE, WI– At Kozy Community Center, giant post-it notes with questions about school resource officers and student safety covered the walls of a meeting room. The meeting was hosted by Leaders Igniting Transformation, a nonprofit focused on empowering young Black and Brown people in Wisconsin. Over the course of the afternoon, students shared about what helped them feel safe in their communities, and learned about Act 12, the legislation responsible for the reinstatement of school resource officers in Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) . They brainstormed answers to questions about how...
