The Milwaukee Public Schools and the city of Milwaukee still are not seeing eye to eye on placing police officers in public schools. A state law passed last year allowing the city of Milwaukee to create a sales tax required 25 Milwaukee Police officers in MPS schools. But nine months later, that still hasn’t happened. A beating involving teens near Bradley Tech High School last week renewed calls for urgent action.On Friday Milwaukee Public Schools revealed it’s “ready to implement a school resource officer program,” only to have the city attorney hours later refute that.A statement from Evan Goyke read in part, “While we have made meaningful progress, there remain outstanding and unresolved issues…” MPS fired back late Friday, “MPS stands by its previous statement.”12 News is learning the issue could come down to who’s funding the officers. State Rep. Ryan Clancy (D-Milwaukee) says the law is so vague it’s …
