MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- A Milwaukee Public Schools administrator filed a complaint against the district, alleging she was discriminated against, harassed, and faced retaliation for raising concerns.
As a result, a state agency recently found probable cause MPS violated employment law, and will hold an administrative hearing.
Dr. Debbie Keuther says she witnessed discrimination and intentional non-compliance with state education standards. But when she reported it, she says she suffered retaliation from as high as the Office of the Superintendent.
Dr. Kuether said, "I was attempting to alert our senior staff and everyone in between that we are going to be in a real situation if we don’t address this in a timely fashion. And there was no interest in addressing it."
Dr. Kuether says in 2019 she started to notice MPS was not meeting federal and state education standards for students. At the time, she was the district's director of K-12 literacy. She said there were a lot of issues with student resources and access.
She took her concerns to district administrators, saying, "I laid out a document where I took the standards and the state statutes and pointed out where there was a disconnect between what was occurring in our office and what we needed to do."
She says she was retaliated against, taken off committees, then eventually reassigned to the vaguely-titled Administrator on Special Assignment.
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