A longtime civil rights activist, union leader and teacher, Wynn died Wednesday at Froedtert Hospital of complications of breast cancer. She was 83.

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Wynn taught in Milwaukee Public Schools and became the first African-American to become president of the state's largest teachers union, Wisconsin Education Association Council, in 1973. She became active in school desegregation efforts after arriving in Milwaukee from Chicago on the first day of school in 1965 at the beginning of the MPS school boycott.

Wynn developed a financial lobbying strategy to help with the desegregation effort, said her daughter, Hillary Wynn. "Education was her No. 1 focus, and when she became a teacher her focus of activism was in making education fair," she said.

"She said separate but equal couldn't work. She felt very strong about standards and seeing students succeed."

TOGETHER, WITH THE HELP OF THE KOCH BROTHERS
AND OTHER NATIONAL, OUTSIDE INTEREST GROUPS,
WE'LL MOVE WISCONSIN BACKWARDS AND
CREATE A PERFECT STATE FOR BUSINESSES
THAT NEED A LOW EDUCATED,
LOW WAGE WORKFORCE!




NO! to background checks for guns sold at gun shows in Wisconsin. (est. 40% of all sales.)

YES! to doctors - being forced to perform an unwanted ultrasound.

YES! to protecting religious beliefs (as long as they conform to those of Representative Andre Jacque (R-DePere).

YES! to selling prisons, highways, heating plants and university dormitories. (without a public bidding process.)

YES! to vouchers for unregulated charter schools. Taxpayer money with no taxpayer oversight.

YES! to public subsidizing of private schools with tax deductions. ($30 million annual cost to Wisconsin per Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.)

YES! to running for President while trying to govern Wisconsin.

YES! to loyalty by offering well paying State jobs to inexperienced, but loyal, minions.

YES! to out-of-state special interest groups and PACs - they give us buckets full of money.

YES! to keeping BIG Government out of the private lives of Wisconsin citizens*.

*Women excluded.

Give them an apartment first, ask questions later.

Utah has reduced its rate of chronic homelessness by 78 percent over the past eight years, moving 2000 people off the street and putting the state on track to eradicate homelessness altogether by 2015. How’d they do it? The state is giving away apartments, no strings attached. In 2005, Utah calculated the annual cost of E.R. visits and jail stays for an average homeless person was $16,670, while the cost of providing an apartment and social worker would be $11,000. Each participant works with a caseworker to become self-sufficient, but if they fail, they still get to keep their apartment.

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Other states are eager to emulate Utah’s results. Wyoming has seen its homeless population more than double in the past three years, and it only provides shelter for 26 percent of them, the lowest rate in the country. City officials in Casper, Wyoming, now plan to launch a pilot program using the methods of Utah’s Housing First program. There’s no telling how far the idea might go.