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Category: Madison schools

  • Blaska’s ballot looks like this:

    Garbage in, garbage out! Unlike The Washington Post — or Amazon.com for that matter — Blaska Policy Werkes endorses candidates. In many cases, we help the candidates we support by endorsing their opponents. The old switcheroo, as KC Chiefs Coach Andy Reid might say. Donald Segretti would be proud. Donald Trump riding a garbage truck…

  • Kamala, Bernie, and AOC!

    are three stooges for progressive policy! If Donald Trump could quit lying about losing his last election he would be headed for a landslide victory in this one. (There’s still time!) Because the progressivism he’s running against has been disproven, repudiated, and shamed. When you think about it, what has Election Denial gotten Donald Trump…

  • All the more reason to vote NO!

    Thanks to $$$ windfall from State of WI! State shared revenue numbers are out and it appears the Madison metro school district will get a helluva lot more financial aid than expected. As in $61.3 million — a whopping 62% increase from last year’s $37.9 million! Goobly gobs greater than the statewide average 4.2% increase.…

  • Madison public schools flush with money

    Vote down both spending asks! Every three years, Madison’s education-industrial complex breaks out the begging bowls for still more money. Never mind that Madison’s public schools are some of the best-funded in the state; school leadership just doesn’t know how to budget. Posing two referenda, the Madison Metropolitan School District is asking for $507 million…

  • See me after school

    Welcome to Lake Woebegone (Where everything ‘meets expectations’) Every so often, The Werkes attempts to be even-handed. (Why does it hurt when we do that?) But did anyone read Jill Underly’s explanation of why her Department of Public Instruction is dumbing down K-12 student performance standards?  The goal was to make sure we more accurately…

  • The weather outside is delightful

    Up here in Wisconsin, anyways! These last few golden but threadbare years, the Werkes fantasized that if we were to establish a southern outpost, it would be somewhere around Asheville NC. The Great Smoky mountains, forests, waterfalls, art scene, craft brews. Some of the greatest motorcycle riding in America. Yeah, we did the Tail of…