Editing Milwaukee (section)

==Education==
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===Primary and secondary education===
{{Main|Milwaukee Public Schools}}

[[Milwaukee Public Schools]] (MPS) is the largest school district in Wisconsin and [[List of the largest school districts in the United States by enrollment|thirty-third]] in the nation. As of 2007, it had an enrollment of 89,912 students<ref>{{cite news|last=Borsuk|first=Alan J.|url=http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=674879|title=The face of Milwaukee Public Schools is changing|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|date=October 16, 2007|access-date=July 2, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080212060823/http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=674879|archive-date=February 12, 2008}}</ref> and as of 2006 employed 11,100 full-time and substitute teachers in 323 schools. Milwaukee Public Schools operate as [[magnet school]]s, with individualized specialty areas for interests in academics or the arts. [[Washington High School (Milwaukee)|Washington High School]], [[Riverside University High School]], [[Rufus King High School]], [[Ronald Wilson Reagan College Preparatory High School]], [[Samuel Morse Middle School for the Gifted and Talented]], [[Golda Meir School]], [[Milwaukee High School of the Arts]], and [[Lynde & Harry Bradley Technology and Trade School]] are some of the magnet schools in Milwaukee. In 2007, 17 MPS high schools appeared on a national list of "dropout factories"—schools where fewer than 60% of freshmen graduate on time.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/31977494.html|title=Local 'drop-out factories'|last=Borsuk|first=Alan J.|date=October 30, 2007|newspaper=Milwaukee Journal Sentinel|access-date=March 27, 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208112018/http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/31977494.html|archive-date=December 8, 2010}}</ref>

Milwaukee is also home to over two dozen private or parochial high schools, such as [[Marquette University High School]], and many private and [[parochial school|parochial]] middle and elementary schools. In 1990, Milwaukee became the first city in the United States to offer a [[school voucher]] program.

Of persons in Milwaukee aged 25 and above, 89.2% have a high school diploma, and 32.4% have a bachelor's degree or higher.<ref name="QuickFacts" />

===Higher education===
Milwaukee area universities and colleges:
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* [[Alverno College]]
* The Art Institute of Wisconsin
* [[Bryant and Stratton]]
* [[Carroll University]] ([[Waukesha, Wisconsin|Waukesha]])
* [[Concordia University Wisconsin]]
* [[Herzing University]]
* [[Marquette University]]
* [[Medical College of Wisconsin]] ([[Wauwatosa]])
* [[Milwaukee Area Technical College]]
* [[Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design]]
* [[Milwaukee School of Engineering]]
* [[Mount Mary University]]
* [[Nashotah House]]
* [[Saint Francis de Sales Seminary]]
* [[University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee]]
* Wisconsin Institute for Torah Study
* [[Wisconsin Lutheran College]]
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