Category: Madison schools
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Expel Madison schools’ Behavior Education Plan
Start over with a clean sheet. Blaska said it in 2019 when we ran for Madison school board. The district’s Behavior Education Plan — then in its fifth year — wasn’t working. Would they listen? No-OOOO! Surprise surprise, as Gomer Pyle would say. The Behavior Education Plan (BEP) STILL isn’t working! Its failure is…
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Rename that school!
After a black woman! With considerably less anticipation than a shipwrecked husband on his honeymoon night, the Head Groundskeeper awaits the renaming of three more public schools Monday 08-24-26 here in Woke City, Wisconsin. Renaming public schools is the latest Woke Madison fetish, now that the city has overcome its sense of white fragility to…
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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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Can parents discipline Madison schools?
or will the school board fight back? Madison homeowners rent their garments and cried unto the heavens after their school property tax bills hit their mail boxes. None of that wailing made a bit of difference in last week’s school board elections. Both incumbents were rewarded with new three-year terms because their challengers never made…
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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,…