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Category: Madison schools

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The definition of madness

    … is expecting different results. We have been approached by neighbors here in Madison WI — this time not with a cease and desist order. They’re seeking advice, strategies, or black helicopter ops in the cause of reversing the referenda authorizing our schools to blow by state spending limits by an additional $607 million. Best…

  • 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,…

  • There ain’t no ‘UniParty’ in Madison, you fascist!

    Don’t believe your lyin’ eyes! Back when Ali Muldrow was still speaking to us, shortly after defeating Blaska for Madison school board, she invited her vanquished opponent to dine with her at an isthmus boîte frequented by other socialists like John Nichols and Mayor Satya’s chief of staff. Ali, a young black woman, seemed genuinely…

  • ‘Victimhood is not liberation’

    Guilty white progressives teach blame, not phonics. Monday, January 19, we honor America’s historic struggle for civil rights and human dignity. We do so in the name of Martin Luther King Jr. Blaska admires the guy for his courage as much as for his noble cause. (Great wordsmith, too!) History records many allies — some…