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students had to go to school somewhere else after grade 5. In 2011, parents asked the school board to allow grade 6 though 8 to move into the closed Milwaukee Education Center middle school, which is adjacent to Golda Meir's property. The building previously housed the Malt House of the long-closed Schlitz Brewery. The expansion has allowed all of Golda Meir's students to remain in the school. Golda Meir added grade 9 in 2014 and will continue to add grades until the Schlitz building has a high school population of 600 students.
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Golda Meir had three classrooms in grade 3, grade 4, and grade 5. That left it with only enough room for one class in grade 6, grade 7, and grade 8. As a result, there were about 90 students in each of the elementary grades but only 30 students in each of the middle school grades. The 60 other
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H-shaped in plan, the school building has four stories (basement included) and contains 16 classrooms along with an auditorium. A single story heating plant was added in 1915, with a fuel room to follow in 1937. Fire escapes and enclosure of the stairways brought the building up to code in 1957.
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that she "learned a lot more than fractions or how to spell at Fourth Street School..." When she was in fourth grade, Meir undertook her first public works project by organizing a fundraiser to pay for her classmates' textbooks. She rented a hall and scheduled a public meeting for the event.
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I took a great deal with me from America to Palestine, more perhaps than I can express: an understanding of the meaning of freedom, and awareness of the opportunities offered to the individual in a true democracy and a permanent nostalgia for the great beauty of the American
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In 1912 the girl who had arrived as a poor Jewish-Ukrainian immigrant with weak English graduated from Fourth Street School as valedictorian. Four years later she graduated from Milwaukee's North Division High School and entered teachers' college, but her interest in
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in 1990. It is one of three buildings in the United States with a significant association with Meir. A plaque mounted outside the front door of the school reads in part "it was here that she learned the values that carried her through life."
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style. Hallmarks of the style are the rough stone foundation (to give it a sense of rootedness) and the round-topped arches. The school was completed by 1890 and opened its doors on September 2, 1890.
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in Milwaukee's Jewish Community Center. She kept Milwaukee as her home base until 1920, when she and her husband moved to New York, then emigrated to Palestine in 1921. She later wrote:
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was established, she returned to the U.S. to raise more funds for Israel. In following years she served as Israel's ambassador to the
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of the same era, the Fourth Street School, now the Meir School lower campus, was designed in 1889 by noted Milwaukee architect
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she worked to rescue Jews from the Nazis. In 1948, as European Jews flooded to Palestine and around the time the
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On October 3, 1969, Prime Minister Meir revisited her old Fourth Street School in Milwaukee, accompanied by
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and in the 1930s she traveled back to the U.S. to lecture and raise funds for the Jews of Palestine. During
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Renovation of the interior and exterior took place in 1976, during which a cafeteria was added.
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Golda Meir School, as it was renamed on May 4, 1979, is one of the city's original
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Accompanying four photos, exterior and interior, from 1983 and 1990
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and Orville Pitts. The school was renamed in her honor in 1979.
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Intensive Survey Form: Elementary School (Golda Meir School)
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in 1898 to a Jewish family and spent her early years in the
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part of Imperial Russia where Jews were allowed to live
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark

Golda Meir School is located in Wisconsin
Golda Meir School is located in the United States
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
43°03′03″N 87°54′56″W / 43.0509°N 87.9155°W / 43.0509; -87.9155
MPS
84003720
Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Golda Meir
Israel
National Historic Landmark
Schlitz Brewing Complex
Henry C. Koch
Romanesque Revival
magnet schools
September 11, 2001

Golda Meir
Kiev, Ukraine
part of Imperial Russia where Jews were allowed to live
Palestine
Labor Zionist Movement
WWI
Yiddish
Histadrut
WWII

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