Tag: Kaleem Caire
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Kaleem Caire for Madison school superintendent
Is anyone making more sense for Madison schools than Kaleem Caire? Does anyone have a better track record than Kaleem Caire for not only advocating for minority students but actually doing something about it? Who else has the moral stature, as president of the Urban League of Madison, as founder of One City Early Learning,…
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Madison schools go full-on stupid
The firing of Marlon Anderson, the West high school security guard for schooling a miscreant kid on the hatefulness of the N-word, is what our … acquaintances like to call “a teachable moment.” Here’s betting the Madison school district flunks this real-life snap quiz. Mr. Anderson has been re-instated by orders of school board president…
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‘Stop calling me [the N-word]’ … should not get you fired from your job
So says educator Kaleem Caire, who should be hired our nextMadison school superintendent Black West high school security says he was fired for admonishing student who called him the N-word. (News story here) Phil Hands cartoon here West High students may walk out Friday in protest Kaleem Caire posted this today: I was there in…
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Fighting discipline ‘and other racist acts’ in the Madison schools
Kaleem Caire for Madison school board A reader has shamed Blaska into applying for the vacancy caused by Mary Burke’s inexplicable resignation from the Madison Board of Education. As I told the WI State Journal, I have no hope of being appointed but one must put up the good fight. I see that Ed Hughes…
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Madison school board: It ain’t working so let’s do more of it
And Kaleem Caire gets righteous! Does this sound like the Madison school district we all know and love: The Madison School Board is set to approve another three-year contract with Schools of Hope at the end of the month despite expressing disappointment with the program’s lack of identifiable success in improving academic performance. “Lack of…
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White woman skips town after inflicting an ‘inflection point’
It’s been a ‘privilege,’ Jen We understand creative destruction here at the Policy Werkes. It is why we have Netflix instead of Blockbuster. But “creative” does not describe the destruction Jennifer Cheatham has wrought on Madison’s public schools. Even Capital Times editor Paul Fanlund (a suspected white man) notices that Kaleem Caire — “as steadfast…