Tag: Teachers Union
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WI black leaders support Kinser for state school marm
but so do those darned Republicans! Because anti-reform Democrats protect the status quo. Wisconsin’s chief school marm has been a disaster. A scandal. Not even one-third of our elementary school kids can read at grade. The racial achievement gap hasn’t budged; only 17.5% of black students are proficient in “language arts” compared to 60.5% of…
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Who’s running this show?
You don’t want to know! Yeah, O.K., spending one hundred grand to pay for out-of-town head hunters only to wind up with the obvious choice for Madison schools superintendent, a local boy with a national reputation who wants to return home to Madison, is taxpayer money down the drain. But it’s small change compared to…
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Kwitcherbitchen and get back in class!
The head groundskeeper sez: The U.S. Senate should be thankful Ron Johnson called for reading Biden’s $1.9 trillion Covid and Pork bill rather than Dr. Seuss. At what point will the teachers unions piss off even committed progressives on the Left? Even the WI State Journal, tiptoeing through the tulips of the Peoples’ Republic (lest…
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Blaska supports district charter schools; part #2 of 3
‘One thousand points of light’ Second part of the Madison Teachers Inc. questionnairefor the Tuesday, February 19 school board primary election 10. What ideas do you have to support the recruitment and retention of teachers of color so that our work force is more representative of our student population? 10. What ideas do you have…
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Leading school board candidate answers questions from teachers union; Part #1 of 3
Blaska answers 30 questions from Madison Teachers Inc. with some straight talk Why are you running for the MMSD Board of Education? Because Safe Schools = a Safe Community Because we can close the achievement gap only by restoring discipline and high expectations to Madison education regardless of race, income, or other identity politics. Yes, there is a…
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Arrest the social justice brownshirts
“This is what democracy looks like,” the Derail the Jail mob chanted Monday night as they disrupted a scheduled meeting of the Dane County Board of Supervisors. No, this is what the Bolshevik putsch 100 years ago looked like. This is what Mao’s Cultural Revolution looked like. This is what brownshirts do in banana republics.…