{"id":4068,"date":"2011-10-24T15:35:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-24T20:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www5.milwaukee.k12.wi.us\/school\/obama\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2026-05-07T15:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T15:17:17","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- MetaSlider 1085 not found -->\n<p><a style=\"display: block; padding-top: 20px;\" href=\"http:\/\/mpsmke.com\/enroll\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1873\" src=\"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/53rd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2025\/11\/Summer-Academy-Banner.gif\" alt=\"Enroll Now\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4743\" src=\"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/OBAMA_Cougars-Color.png\" alt=\"Obama Cougars\" width=\"270\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/OBAMA_Cougars-Color.png 270w, https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2024\/04\/OBAMA_Cougars-Color-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At Barack Obama School of Career and Technical Education, we look forward to inspiring a vision, mission, and culture of high expectations. We hope that you will find this to be an exciting and rewarding year by supporting our work toward the goals of fostering students to embrace academic success and school beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>Our school is a traditional neighborhood school that fosters an educational environment that aligns curriculum and instruction to specific learning goals and the common core standards. We offer a K5-12 educational program that focuses on college preparation and career and technical education.\u00a0 We offer training, apprenticeships, certifications, and career guidance\u00a0 in HVAC, Welding, Manufacturing, and Robotics.\u00a0 In addition, we are a Project Lead the Way school.<\/p>\n<h2>Special Notes<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>If your child is going to be absent, please contact our Attendance Secretary, Ms. Austin, at 414-393-4911 to report the absence.<\/li>\n<li>Cell phones and other such electronic devices are not permitted in the school.\u00a0 Violations of the district cell phone policy will result in consequences for the student.<\/li>\n<li>To Review Our School Report Card with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, click <a href=\"https:\/\/apps2.dpi.wi.gov\/reportcards\/home\">Here.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Barack Obama School of Career and Technical Education, we look forward to inspiring a vision, mission, and culture of high expectations. We hope that you will find this to be an exciting and rewarding year by supporting our work toward the goals of fostering students to embrace academic success and school beliefs. Our school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"content-sidebar","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-4068","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/obama\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}