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Tag: School resource police officers

  • Disrupter wanted on Madison school board

    Do we really need same old same old? Looking on the bright side (as suggested by Monty Python in Life of Brian), school board voters in Madison WI won’t have Blaska to kick around anymore. We’re not on the ballot, don’t want your write-in. You’re welcome. Ali Muldrow can run unopposed for a third term,…

  • City of Madison did not lobby Republicans

    for more state revenue! After filing an open records request, citizen watchdog Bonnie Roe finds that not once did the City of Madison lobby a single Republican legislator for financial assistance during the last 18 months even as its $22 million budget hole became apparent. That’s important because Republicans control the purse strings in state…

  • Send in the police!

    Expel the clowns! God Bless and hold in his heart police chief Shon Barnes! Madison’s public schools should, indeed, reinstate school resource police officers in its four troubled high schools! We’ve argued they should go a step further and assign SROs to the middle schools, at least part-time.  Chief Barnes sounded the alarm after officers…

  • Restore school resource police officers!

    Says Chief Shon Barnes after Georgia school shootings! As the Chief of Police in Madison, I am deeply concerned about the safety of our students in the wake of the most recent school shooting in Georgia. It is a tragic reminder of the harsh reality that we live in a world where school shootings have…