Monthly Archives: May 2007
Memorial Spring Art Sale
Memorial Spring Art Sale is coming! Thursday, May 31st and June 1st in the CRC. Artwork by professional artists, Memorial faculty and students. Ceramics, jewelry, fabrics, photography and more! This is a great opportunity to find some marvelous artwork at … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS
Everyone has a stake in the schools.
Mary Conroy: Make business pay fair share of taxes (excerpts), the Capital Times, May 22, 2007 Every year, Madison’s School Board gets a tsunami of suggestions on balancing the budget. And that’s as it should be: Everyone has a stake … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Budget, Local News, School Finance, Take Action
School Board Names Commitee Chairs and Members for Upcoming Year
The Madison Metropolitan School Board named their standing committee chairs and members for the 2007 – 2008 school year. They are: Communications Beth Moss, Chair Carol Carstensen, Member Lawrie Kobza, Member Community Partnerships Maya Cole, Chair Lucy Mathiak, Member Johnny … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Local News
Good News from JFC
The Joint Finance Committee dealt with some education matters today and the news is mostly good. The Special Education categorical aid increase proposed by Governor Doyle advanced intact, as did the SAGE funding. GOP attempts to make the revenue caps … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Budget, Local News, School Finance, Take Action
ABC Madison Meeting, 5/16
ABC Madison is the group that has emerged from the state funding advocacy work of the BOE Communication Committee. We will be meeting on Wednesday May 16th at 6:30 PM in the Doyle Building, rm 103. Please join us and … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Local News, School Finance, Take Action
Free Speech in the Classroom
This reporting gives ample space to a very important issue facing every teacher in the classroom today: free speech. I was fortunate enough to have met Deb Mayer on a couple of occasions here in Madison while her appeal was … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Gimme Some Truth, National News, Quote of the Day
Part of the problem
This reporting below is symptomatic of a larger issue that we have been unsuccessful at conveying to our state legislators so far, the need for fundamental school finance reform. It’s not a question of taking money from one school and … Continue reading
Joint Finance Vote – Act Now!
The Joint Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on school funding issues Tuesday, May 15. Now is the time to email or call. Talking points here; email addresses here; contact info here. Much more under School Finance and Take Action. … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, School Finance, Take Action
Accountability Manifesto
Jim Horn (of Schools Matter, The Education Policy Blog and Monmouth University) thinks it is time turn the tables on the “failing businessmen and politicians” who have been promoting and legislating ill-conceived accountability requirements for our schools and start demanding … Continue reading
Filed under Accountability, AMPS, Elections, No Child Left Behind, School Finance
Dave Zweifel Gets It Too
Dave Zweifel’s piece in today’s Cap Tmes like Ed Garvey’s recent Op Ed points the finger of blame for school woes where it belongs: the irrevokably flawed state funding system. The whole thing is worth reading, but the heart of … Continue reading
Filed under AMPS, Budget, Local News, School Finance
