Category: School Board Election 2019
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Crime and schools are on the city ballot
More so in Chicago than in Madison, unfortunately. Election central is up and running here at the Policy Werkes. A bottomless pot of Maxwell House percolates on the Monarch kitchen range, rabbit ears on the b&w Philco are perked up for the latest update, the wall-sized blackboard is charted into rows and columns like a…
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Vote NO! for better schools
To get their attention on Nov. 3! Another election is approaching, which means the Madison school district has its hands out for more money. Time to do like Sister Mary Rosaria and slap that hand with a steel-edge ruler! The Madison Metropolitan School District seeks a one-time infusion of $317 million to fix stuff, buy…
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Liberal Madison congratulates itself for good intentions
The sweetest sound you’ll ever hear: David Blaska was right! The news media loves to imagine itself as the afflicter of the comfortable, David with his slingshot v. Goliath. “J’accuse!” in 96-point bodoni bold type. Edward R. Murrow starring down Tailgunner Joe. Bogart starting the presses in Deadline USA. Woodward and Bernstein. In…
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Friends of Mirilli have inside track on Madison school board pick
UPDATE 07-23-19: It’s Savion Castro, also a friend of Mirilli and Muldrow. We checked four of the first five boxes correctly. We handicap the field of 29 applicants for the vacancy on the Madison school board. The six current members will select a replacement for Mary Burke among 29 applicants (twenty-nine!) early this evening (07-22-19).…
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Same old: Police, not student behavior, to blame
Blaska Policy Werkes has its werkes cut out for it. We are upside down, backwards and inside out here in the Emerald City, Madison WI. As predicted, Ms. Ali Muldrow and Ms. Ananda Mirilli voted against policing our troubled high schools in a 4-3 vote Monday night, without citizen comment because the Board of Education…