MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Public Schools Board’s Finance and Personnel Committee
has approved the appointment of a new commissioner of athletics for Milwaukee Public Schools.
The committee approved the appointment of Matthew Goodwin at its meeting Tuesday night, according to the school board’s documents.
Those documents show that Goodwin, who previously worked in the athletics office, would make $120,000 in the new role, replacing Bobbie Kelsey as the athletics commissioner for the largest school district in the state.
The appointment, while approved by the MPS Board’s Finance and Personnel Committee, still needs to be reviewed and approved by the full MPS school board, according to a spokesperson for Milwaukee Recreation, which is a department of MPS.
That meeting is set to happen next week, Thursday, Feb. 26, according to the spokesperson.
Goodwin’s appointment Tuesday comes just over four months after internal emails from MPS employees showed they were notified Kelsey was no longer employed by the district.
In October 2024, Kelsey's office and position came under scrutiny after two high schools were forced to forfeit their football season wins because Kelsey's office failed to file the proper paperwork with the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association.
TMJ4’s Jenna Rae has reached out to Goodwin for comment.
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