The video is of Randy Kunsch of the Phillips School District testifying at the 2007 hearing on the Pope-Roberts/Breske Resolution. He was one of the organizers and participants in the first Walk on the Child’s Side in 1999 and will be speaking at the June 16th 10th Anniversary Rally.
Here is the full line up of speakers:
- Rep. Sondy Pope-Roberts, Middleton, chair of the Assembly Education Committee and a legislator who has actually sponsored legislation to change the way Wisconsin funds its public schools
- Randy Kunsch, teacher in the Phillips School District and an organizer of the 1999 Walk on the Child’s Side
- Mary Bell, president of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC)
- Kayla LaPlante, Pulaski High School junior, student council member and vice-president of the Wisconsin Association of School Councils and Thomas Aiken, eighth grader at Whitefish Bay Middle School and also a WASC vice-president
- Randy Braun, superintendent of the Cameron School District and veteran of the original Walk on the Child’s Side
- Jennifer Morales, former board director with Milwaukee Public Schools, and Angie Roberts, parent in the Rhinelander School District, talking about the need to form bonds and coalitions between urban and rural school districts
- Art Rainwater, former superintendent of the Madison Metropolitan School District, and participant in the first Walk.
Here is the basic information:
What: 10th anniversary Walk on the Child’s Side
Who: All Wisconsinites who care about their public schools
Where: Walk from the UW-Madison Library Mall to the steps of the State Capitol
When: 11 a.m. on Tuesday , June 16; Rally at Noon , State Capitol
What: 10th anniversary Walk on the Child’s Side
See you there.
Thomas J. Mertz
AMPS 