Category: Madison schools
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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…
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No $$$ reward for failed school board
Speak out against pay grab! The tragedy of Madison’s public schools is that the minority-race students it valorizes are the ones who suffer most from its disempowering Woke racism. For its failures, the seven school board members are poised to reward itself with pay raises, health insurance, and out-of-town junkets. They meet tonight starting at…
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Only a progressive could bad-mouth a tax cut!
While our school board rides the gravy train! How surprised is anyone that the part-time Madison school board wants to nearly double its pay to $15,000 (from $8,000) AND claim generous health and dental insurance worth between $82,000 and $220,000? After hitting up us taxpayers for an extra $100 million for operations and another $500…
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We need more guns in schools & churches
after the most-recent slaughter in a ‘gun-free’ zone! The signs aren’t working, people! The ones that prohibit firearms. Crazy people intent on death — others and their own — don’t obey no stinkin’ signs. We’ve been saying that for years. Three years ago we wrote, “Our schools are unarmed and dangerous.” It is gratifying to…