Category: Madison schools
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Can Madison WI afford to be any more progressive?
WANTED: ‘social & economic justice’ for taxpayers! In a few months, The Capital Times will encourage voters to elect progressives to local political office. We know this from bitter experience. • As in March 2021, it announced “endorsements for a strong, progressive city council.” • The next year, it recommended 13 “Progressive voices for April voters.”…
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The wrong guys open their property tax bills
So much for the party of ‘affordability’ Years ago, making the workday commute, this scribe drove by a billboard that posed this question: “Why Do the Heathens Rage?” Now we know. Property tax bills were hitting mailboxes. Our neighbors here in Madison WI are raging mad, shocked that gambling is occurring in Casablanca. Typical is…
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We thought it was a good idea
to challenge Madison’s uni-party. But what do we know? A slew of elections looms on the calendar — city, county, and school boards galore, all non-partisan, supposedly. That won’t stop the Democratic Party of Dane County WI from endorsing candidates across the board. And funding them; and setting them up with web designers, campaign lit…
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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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Madison’s public schools are progressive
expensive and disappointing. Everything progressives believe about K-12 education is wrong. It’s minority students who suffer most. So says The Atlantic magazine — hardly a MAGA outlet. “America is Sliding Toward Illiteracy,” its headline warns. “Declining standards and low expectations are destroying American education.” Bad enough State schools superintendent Jill Underly cooked the books to…
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Is Madison ready to quit the crazy?
We hear things! Ran into Mike Verveer at Bob Keller’s funeral a week ago at Bethel Lutheran Church. Mike is by far Madison’s longest-serving alder — 30 years! We asked if the Council would finally pull the plug on the do-nothing Independent Police Monitor and its anti-cop Police Civilian Oversight Board. He thought maybe one…