The 81st Assembly District is the only district in the Madison Metropolitan School District where there will be a primary contest for a State office this September. The Cap Times posted an overview of the race to replace Dave Travis and Q&As with the candidates last week. Since we all know that the Assembly [...]
It must be that time of year, or more likely the “going out of business” state finance system continuing to take its toll on districts in Wisconsin. Five more districts have placed referenda Fall ballots. That brings the total to ten by my count, eight for operation and maintenance and two to [...]
An interesting report out on the survey results of presidential pollster Cornell Belcher presented at the recent 8th Annual Quality Education Conference in Washington, DC, focused on the [...]
From WISC-TV
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One thing that needs to be corrected is this: “After the first year, the state kicks in two-thirds of the funding and covers the full cost after four years.”
What happens is that the district must absorb [...]
As Madison prepares to discuss a school operating referendum, it is important to remember that we are not alone.
In the past two years districts in Wisconsin have held over 150 operating and maintenance referenda simply to continue the quality and diversity of educational programming that they have had in the past. This isn’t because [...]
Tav Falco and the Unapproachable Panther Burns - “Money Talks” (click to listen or download)
On July 28th the Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education will begin discussing a possible operating referendum. This is what Board President Arlene Silveira had to say on The Daily Page:
You will start to hear talk of a referendum [...]
Click on the image for a very cool interactive version from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resourses.
Ray Charles, Greenback Dollar (click to listen or download).
In many, many ways the Wisconsin school finance system is-in-and-of-itself penny wise and pound foolish. Beyond the general truths that a lack of investment in the education of our children [...]
Tom Beebe of the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools and John Smart of the Park Falls School Board, the Policies & Resolutions Committee of the Wisconsin Association of School Boards and the Board of Directors of the Wisconsin Alliance for Excellent Schools. were on WORT’s “In our Back Yard” today discussing the Wausaukee [...]
You’d better hold on to what you’ve got
You’d better hold on to what you’ve got
Cause if you think nobody wants it
Just throw it away and you will see
Someone will have it before you can count 1, 2, 3
Yes they will, yes they will
Joe Tex, “Hold On to What You Got” (click to listen)
[Updates at the [...]
Hieronymus Bosch
During a speech to the National Association of Latino Elected & Appointed Officials the other day, John McCain launched into a discussion of NCLB and education funding, holding up New York City (with awful - and similar funding issues to Wisconsin) and New Orleans (oy!) as examples of Republican success stories in education. [...]
