Category: Education
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Flush with cash, Madison schools hand out more free stuff
courtesy of us taxpayers. Blaska is back in kvetch mode today. Madison public schools will do it every time. The district is giving away more free stuff to its employees: 12 weeks — 60 days worth — of taxpayer paid parental leave for every teacher, custodian, lunch lady, and bureaucrat. Price tag: $1.2 million/year. No…
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UW-Madison invited a Republican!
O.K., he wasn’t exactly MAGA. Father was driving up East Washington Avenue while the little kid in back thought he would explode as the imposing State Capitol loomed ever larger through the windshield like a vision from the Wizard of Oz. How great must be this thing called “Gummint!” If Wisconsin were to build its…
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Redefining failure & waste
WI employers can’t find literate workers! Republicans in the state legislature are rightly holding up $1 million in funding for Jill Underly’s WI Department of Public Instruction after learning the state agency spent $368,885 to rent a Wisconsin Dells vacation spa for four days in June 2024. That is where DPI convened 88 “expert” educators,…
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‘I’m finding more victims every day’
a cry of conscience from a parent addressed to Madison’s public schools. We devote this blog to Mr. Ray Mendez, parent of a Madison public school student to Superintendent Joe Gothard and the school board: The head-stomping at Madison West was not a “fight.” It was a near-fatal attack. Madison Police arrested three teens; two are…
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Republicans helping our kids learn
by banning smartphones in the classroom! No thanks to Assembly Democrats Gee Wally, even Tony Evers signed it. Just today! A bill to ban smartphones during school hours. Something Madison’s public schools could not bring themselves to do. Something Democrats here in Dane County and statewide could not bring themselves to support. Nineteen states already…
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Let’s make more political points!
How else can we hold Jill Underly accountable? Can’t help but imagine The Capital Times, more progressive than Zohran Mamdani in a keffiyah, wishes it had exposed Republican wrong-doing instead of getting the goods on the state’s hyper-Woke school marm, Jill Underly. But it committed some real journalism and now it has to live with…