Henry Leonard for School Board

Happy New Year, Milwaukee County!

I’m looking forward to another year of serving the
great people of Milwaukee County. Wishing everyone a wonderful 2026 filled with health,
happiness, and prosperity.

Let’s get to work!

This is how we win. We vote in those who at least, no the bottom lines. This time if we take majorities we need to force major reforms, term limits, codifying those bottom lines and making sure we move forward.

Always remember this: We outnumber the oligarchs.

Kudos to Zohran Kwame Mamdani on his remarkable victory tonight!

I have a lot of time on my hands since going into COVID isolation. Mild symptoms, (fully vaccinated) but past the 6 month period so a booster would have helped, but just the same, feeling rather unproductive. I am going to try to put something out every week. By now I was hoping that we would have reached the 68-70% fully vaccinated level. That would have reduced our infection and death rates substantially. In fact, a significant amount of bus drivers calling in sick, teachers and staff requiring quarantining and the disruptions it caused is due to people not getting vaccinated. Normally, MPS transportation plans for a 10% absentee rate but with COVID those numbers run closer to 25-30%. Staff email me almost daily on growing frustrated by lacking staff in their buildings. Parents have similar complaints. I say all of this to state the obvious, the most logical solution to this is to get enough people vaccinated in order to reduce the rate of infections, with the subsequent number of drivers and staff that go down sick or are forced to quarantine. There is no magic solution to this. If we make the sacrifice to vaccinate and wear masks we protect each other enough to bring back an as semblance of order. For me, a board director, I must act on behalf of the children, staff and families that I represent. That is first and foremost. This is not about my rights and freedoms because first I must act on my responsibilities. To my family, my students and staff etc. the more of us that act on that sacrifice the greater chance we have of reducing this and getting back to normal order. I am humbly pleading with those of you who have not gotten vaccinated to help us with this-please. Sincerely, Director Leonard

Just a quick FYI. The 7th district townhall hearing will be held tomorrow from 5:30-7:00 pm at Walt Whitman School (4200 south 54th street). This townhall gives the 7th district parents/families/staff and community members the opportunity to hear the MPS administrative ideas for spending ESSER III dollars but is also an opportunity to get direct input from the aforementioned groups on how they would like these funds spent. Your input is greatly appreciated and may have a direct input on how board directors vote on spending plans. If we are inside be aware that masks must be worn as this is both MPS policy and one of our mitigation methods in reducing the spread of Covid.

Thank You
Director Leonard 7th district.

Good Evening Everyone,
I have not posted on this site in a few months. But I wanted to let constituents and other supporters know that MPS and myself thought best to postpone my town hall set up for Hamilton HS due to high temperatures and dew points MPS closed early. I am planning on doing an in-person town hall next week and it will be posted to the MPS site, this site and some of the community organization sites. I will keep you posted and if you need babysitting in order to attend the meeting it will be made available. In the next week I will post details of the agenda and other comments as a prep to the town hall.

Thank You

Good Morning Everyone,
Even though I was uncontested in this school board election I want to thank everyone who supported me in this campaign and election. For all of the people that went out to vote in the 7th district thank you. The real work is already starting but I want you to know that I appreciate your support. I am putting my email address out on this post because I am sincerely working on developing better communications between the board, myself and you the constituents. We may not always agree but your input is valuable and will help in finding the common ground to improve our school district. Again, thank you. [email protected]

I am proud to be endorsed by the WCV, (Wisconsin Conservation Voters) and looking forward to promoting their ideals within MPS.

I am excited and honored to receive the AFSCME endorsement. Looking forward to working with their organization.